Article
Postnatal development of the rat intrinsic cardiac nervous system: a confocal laser scanning microscopy study in whole-mount atria.
Tissue & cell - 1 Oct 2000
Horackova M, Slavikova J, Byczko Z
Abstract excerpt
We used confocal laser scanning microscopy and fluorescent immunohistochemistry to study the developmental pattern and distribution of specific neuronal phenotypes within the intrinsic cardiac nervous system in whole-mount atrial preparations from newborn to 5 week old rats. Individual ganglia and neuronal cell bodies were localized by means of two general neuronal markers: protein gene product 9.5 (PGP) and...
Topics
- Age Factors
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Antigens, Differentiation
- Heart
- Heart Atria
- Heart Septum
- Immunohistochemistry
- Microscopy, Confocal
- Microtubule-Associated Proteins
- Myocardium
- Nervous System
- Neuropeptide Y
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Substance P
- Time Factors
- Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase
