Article
Cellular terrain surrounding sympathetic nerve pathways in the rat orbit: comparisons of orbital connective tissue and smooth muscle cell phenotypes.
The Journal of comparative neurology - 2 Nov 1998
Smith P G, Fan Q, Zhang R, Warn J D
Abstract excerpt
Sympathetic axons are abundant within some orbital tissues but are absent from others. This study investigated cellular phenotypes of tissues containing sympathetic nerves en passage and compared these with phenotypes in regions devoid of sympathetic nerves and with smooth muscle targets. Two pri...
Topics
- Animals
- Connective Tissue Cells
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique
- Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
- Microscopy, Electron
- Muscle, Smooth
- Nerve Growth Factors
- Neural Pathways
- Orbit
- Phenotype
- RNA, Messenger
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sympathetic Nervous System
