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Detection of noradrenaline-immunoreactive nerve fibres in rat liver by immunoelectron microscopy
1Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Japan.
The Journal of International Medical Research
|January 14, 1998
Abstract:
Noradrenergic innervation of rat liver was studied immunohistochemically using antibody to noradrenaline at the electron-microscopic level. Noradrenaline-immunoreactive nerve fibres were located in the portal tract and some were in close contact with the portal vein and hepatic artery. Noradrenaline-immunoreactive fibres were found to contain many vesicles that were reactive to anti-noradrenaline antibody. This preliminary study suggests that the method for detecting noradrenaline-immunoreactive fibres using the antibody is useful for studies at the electron-microscopic level.