Vagal Intramuscular Arrays: The Specialized Mechanoreceptor Arbors That Innervate the Smooth Muscle Layers of the Stomach Examined in the Rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 524, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 713-737

  Powley, Terry L ^a   Hudson, Cherie N ^a   Mcadams, Jennifer L ^a   Baronowsky, Elizabeth A ^a   Phillips, Robert J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antrum; Corpus; Forestomach; Nodose; RRID:AB_354750; RRID:nif 0000 10294; Vagus; Visceral afferent

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; GANGLION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; INTRAMUSCULAR ARRAY; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MORPHOMETRICS; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH INNERVATION; STOMACH MUSCLE; STOMACH WALL; VAGUS NERVE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; INNERVATION; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STOMACH;

ANIMALS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STOMACH; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 84953839976     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23892     Document Type: Article

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