Acta Med. 2004, 47: 205-208

https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2018.93

Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) – Positive Innervation of the Guinea-Pig Spleen

Katarína Schmidtováa, Mária Siroťákováb, Monika Kočišováa, Eva Mechírovác

aUniversity P. J. Šafárik, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Košice, Slovak Republic
bUniversity P. J. Šafárik, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Košice, Slovak Republic
cUniversity P. J. Šafárik, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Histology and Embryology, Košice, Slovak Republic

Received March 1, 2004
Accepted June 1, 2004

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