Topography of the porcine epicardiac nerve plexus as revealed by histochemistry for acetylcholinesterase

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 138, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 64-75

  Batulevicius, Darius ^a   Skripka, Valdas ^a   Pauziene, Neringa ^a   Pauza, Dainius H ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Autonomic neurons; Heart innervation; Intracardiac ganglia; Intrinsic cardiac nervous system; Pig

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; AZYGOS VEIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GANGLION; HEART ATRIUM; HEART INNERVATION; HEART NERVE; HEART VENTRICLE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE PLEXUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SWINE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; HEART; HEART ATRIA; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; NEURONS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERICARDIUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUS SCROFA; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 38349049322     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2007.10.005     Document Type: Article

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