The immu nomodulatory effect of nerve growth factor. <...> Artico M., Cavallotti C. and Cavallotti D. Adrenergic nerve fibres and mast cells: correlation in rat thymus. <...> A simple immu nofluorescence technique for simultaneous visualization of mast cells and nerve fibers reveals selectivity and hair cycle dependent changes in mast cell-nerve fiber contacts in murine skin. <...> Cavallotti D., Artico M., Iannetti G. and Cavallotti C. Occurrence of adrenergic nerve fibers in human thymus during immune response. <...> Lorton D., Bellinger D. L., Felten S. Y. and Felten D. L. Substance P innervation of the rat thymus. <...> Mьller S. and Wihe E. Interrelation of peptidergic innervation with mast cells and ED1-positive cells in rat thymus. <...> Newson B., Dahlstrцm A., Enerbдck L. and Ahlman H. Suggestive evidence for a direct innervation of mucosal mast cells: An electron microscopic study. <...> Novothy G. E., Sommerfels H. and Zirbes T. Thymic innervation in the rat: a light and electron microscopical study. <...> Intestinal mucosal mast cells in normal and nematode-infected rat intestines are in intimate contact with peptidergic nerves. <...> Vizi E. S., Orsу E., Osipenko O. N. and Elenkov I. J. Neurochemical, electrophysiological and immunocytochemical evidence for a noradrenergic link between the sympathetic nervous system and thymocytes. <...> Sympathetic in ner vation of murine thymus and spleen: Evidence for a functional link between the nervous and immune systems. <...> A. Fyodorova1, A. V. Polevshchikov1, 2, 4 and D. E. Korzhevskiy1, 3 The purpose of this study was to develop the method for the simultaneous visualization of mast cells (MCs) and nerve terminals, based on generally accepted techniques of histochemical identification of MCs with alcian blue and immunohistochemical detection of synaptophysin. <...> The protocol presented allows simultaneous identification of mast cells and nerve terminals in the sections of paraffin-embedded thymus of laboratory mammals with high selectivity and good reproducibility. <...> The method can be used for both visualization of spatial relationship between MCs and nerve terminals and independent research of the innervation of mammalian internal organs. <...> Key words: mast cells, nerve terminals, alcian blue, synaptophysin 1 Laboratory of the Functional Morphology of the Central and Peripheral Nervous System <...>