Acetylcholinesterase activity, choline acetyltransferase and vesicular acetylcholine transporter immunoreactivities in the rat adrenal gland during postnatal development

Anatomical Record

Volumn 292, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 371-380

  Murabayashi, Hiroshi ^a   Kuramoto, Hirofumi ^b   Ishikawa, Katsushi ^c   Iwamoto, Jun ^c   Miyakawa, Kiyoshi ^c   Tanaka, Kunio ^c   Sekikawa, Mitsuo ^d   Sasaki, Motoki ^d   Kitamura, Nobuo ^d   Oomori, Yukio ^a  

^a Department of Health Sciences   (Japan)

^b KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^d OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Adrenal gland; Choline acetyltransferase; Development; Vesicular acetylcholine transporter

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL MEDULLA; AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HYDROLYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNTHESIS;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANIMALS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

RATTUS;

EID: 65549166999     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20856     Document Type: Article

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