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NOS neurones lie near branchings of cortical arteriolae
J Regidor1, L Edvinsson, I Divac
1Department of Morphology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain.
Neuroreport
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
We show that numerous neurones labelled for NADPH-diaphorase, which synthetize nitric oxide, lie near branching points of the arteriolae which descend through the cerebral cortex from its pial surface. This spatial relationship suggests the possibility of neural control of cortical blood flow by the NADPH-diaphorase neurones, possibly mediated by the rapid action of nitric oxide.