Anatomical and physiological properties of pelvic ganglion neurons in female mice

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 140, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 30-39

  Jobling, Phillip ^a   Lim, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Afterhyperpolarisation; Female pelvic organs; Ganglia; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE PELVIC ORGAN; GANGLION; HYPOGASTRIC NERVE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; ORGAN; PELVIC NERVE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ADRENERGIC FIBERS; ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; CELL SHAPE; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GANGLIA, PARASYMPATHETIC; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NEURONS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; UTERUS;

EID: 44649154935     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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