Changes in nitrergic innervation of defunctionalized rat colon after diversion colostomy

Neurogastroenterology and Motility

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 475-487

  Chaudhury, A ^a   Shariff, A ^a   Srinivas, M ^a   Sabherwal, U ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Diversion colostomy; Enteric nervous system; Myenteric neurones; Nitrergic; Plasticity; Stereology

Indexed keywords

REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CELL DENSITY; CELL VOLUME; COLON; COLOSTOMY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE INNERVATION; IRRITABLE COLON; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NITRERGIC NERVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; COLON; COLOSTOMY; MALE; NITRERGIC NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 4344572993     PISSN: 13501925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2982.2004.00565.x     Document Type: Article

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