Innervation pattern of the preocular human central retinal artery

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 110, Issue , 2013, Pages 142-147

  Bergua, Antonio ^a   Kapsreiter, Markus ^a   Neuhuber, Winfried L ^a   Reitsamer, Herbert A ^b   Schrödl, Falk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Blood flow regulation; ChAT; DBH; NADPH diaphorase; Optic nerve; VAChT

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; SUBSTANCE P; TYROSINE HYDROXILASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL RETINA ARTERY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASER MICROSCOPY; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC DISK; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; RETINAL ARTERY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84876713936     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2012.11.020     Document Type: Article

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