The myenteric plexus of the rat colon after fecal stream diversion: A morpho-quantitative study

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 39-46

  Braganca De Vasconcellos Fontes, Ricardo ^a   Froes, Luis Bernardo ^a   Omar, Erick Dancuart ^b   Liberti, Edson Aparecido ^a  

^a Departamento de Anatomia   (Brazil)

^b Faculdade Med da Univ de S Paulo   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Colon; Colostomy; Myenteric plexus; Neurons; Rats; Wistar

Indexed keywords

REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; COLOSTOMY; EVALUATION; FECAL STREAM DIVERSION; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE INNERVATION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; COLON; COLOSTOMY; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NAD; NADP; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4344586177     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2004.06.004     Document Type: Article

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