Innervation of the extrahepatic biliary tract

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 280, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 836-847

  Balemba, Onesmo B ^a   Salter, Matthew J ^a   Mawe, Gary M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Enteric nervous system; Gallbladder; Innervation; Sphincter of Oddi

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CALBINDIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CHOLECYSTOKININ; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; ENDORPHIN; ENKEPHALIN; GALANIN; GASTRIN; GASTRIN RELEASING PEPTIDE; HORMONE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; NEUROTENSIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NORADRENALIN; PANCREAS POLYPEPTIDE; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE YY; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; SECRETIN; SOMATOSTATIN; SUBSTANCE P; TACHYKININ; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

AGING; BILE DUCT; DUODENUM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GALLBLADDER; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTESTINE INNERVATION; MAST CELL; NERVE PLEXUS; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; ODDI SPHINCTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BILE DUCTS, EXTRAHEPATIC; GALLBLADDER; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; HUMANS; NEURONS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 4944241006     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20089     Document Type: Review

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