Neural plasticity occurs in the adrenal medulla of asthmatic rats

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1333-1337

  Feng, Jun Tao ^a   Li, Xiao Zhao ^a   Hu, Cheng Ping ^a   Wang, Jun ^b   Nie, Hua Ping ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Adrenal medulla; Asthma; Chromaffin cell; Nerve growth Factor; Neural plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENAL CELL; ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CELL DENSITY; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMAFFIN GRANULE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LUNG LAVAGE; METABOLISM; RANDOMIZATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPINEPHRINE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NOREPINEPHRINE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 77952939097     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2010.10.020     Document Type: Article

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