Nitrergic innervation of rat brain vasculature.
Nitric oxide synthase has been located in the brain, in several neuronal populations which appear in close contact either with the microvasculature or the external surface of extracerebral vessels. These data provide structural support to the pharmacological evidences of the nitric oxide participation in the regulation of vascular tone of brain blood vessels.
Cuevas
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P
Servicio de Histología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain.
Carceller
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F
Martinez-Murillo
R
R
Cuevas
B
B
Fu
X
X
Giménez-Gallego
G
G
D000818:Animals; D002536:Cerebral Arteries / Q000294:innervation*; D002550:Cerebral Veins / Q000294:innervation*; D008297:Male; D009252:NADPH Dehydrogenase / Q000032:analysis*; D009474:Neurons / Q000737:chemistry*; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D014666:Vasomotor System / Q000502:physiology
D009569:Nitric Oxide; D009252:NADPH Dehydrogenase