Effects of denervation on acetylcholine receptor clusters on frog cardiac ganglion neurons as revealed by quantitative laser scanning confocal microscopy

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1720-1729

  Wilson Horch, Hadley L ^a,b   Sargent, Peter B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acetylcholine receptors; cardiac ganglion; denervation; extrasynaptic; nicotinic receptors; parasympathetic ganglia

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; FROG; GANGLION; HEART; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

EID: 9244243038     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-05-01720.1996     Document Type: Article

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