Quantifying perivascular sympathetic innervation: Regional differences in male C57BL/6 mice at 3 and 20 months

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 124-128

  Long, Jennifer B ^a,b   Segal, Steven S ^a,b,c,d  

^a JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Dimensional mapping; Catecholamines; Perivascular innervation; Sympathetic nerves

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

AGE DETERMINATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

AGING; ANIMALS; ARTERIES; AXONS; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NEURONS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VEINS;

EID: 70349241498     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.07.028     Document Type: Article

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