Individual sympathetic postganglionic neurons coinnervate myenteric ganglia and smooth muscle layers in the gastrointestinal tract of the rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 524, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 2577-2603

  Walter, Gary C ^a   Phillips, Robert J ^a   McAdams, Jennifer L ^a   Powley, Terry L ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

autonomic nervous system; celiac ganglion; enteric nervous system; muscularis externa; RRID:AB10566286; RRID:AB_10562715; RRID:AB_2307337; RRID:AB_2313574; RRID:AB_2313713; RRID:AB_2336819; RRID:AB_572268; RRID:nig 0000 10294; RRID:RGD_61109; RRID:rid_000081; superior mesenteric ganglion

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXON; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; CELIAC AND SUPERIOR MESENTERIC GANGLIA; CELL LABELING; CELL POPULATION; CIRCULAR MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; MUCOSA; MYENTERIC NEURON; NERVE PLEXUS; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTGANGLIONIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SECONDARY PLEXUS; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH; STOMACH INNERVATION; STOMACH MUSCLE; STOMACH VARICES; SUBMUCOSA; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL;

EID: 84978983222     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23978     Document Type: Article

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