Innervation of pulmonary veins: Morphologic pattern and pathways of nerves in the human fetus

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 158-166

  Vaitkevicius, Raimundas ^a   Saburkina, Inga ^a   Zaliunas, Remigijus ^a   Pauziene, Neringa ^a   Vaitkeviciene, Inga ^a   Schauerte, Patrick ^b   Pauza, Dainius H ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Autonomic ganglia; Human fetus; Intrinsic cardiac nerves; Pulmonary vein innervation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INNERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPICARDIUM; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GANGLION; HEART; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE PLEXUS; PULMONARY VEIN; STEREOMICROSCOPY; TOPOGRAPHY;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; AUTOPSY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CADAVER; FEMALE; FETUS; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 41849108064     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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