Medial gastrocnemius motor nucleus in the rat: Age‐related changes in the number and size of motoneurons

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 269, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 425-430

  Hashizume, Ken ^a   Kanda, Kenro ^a   Burke, Robert E ^a,b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; alpha motoneuron; cell survival; gamma motoneuron; spinal cord

Indexed keywords

HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

AGING; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLES; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SPINAL CORD; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0023855520     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.902690309     Document Type: Article

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