Morphological changes in hepatocytes of rats deprived of dietary nucleotides

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 579-589

  López Navarro, Ana T ^a   Bueno, Juan D ^a   Gil, Angel ^a   Sánchez Pozo, AntonioN ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dietary nucleotides; Liver

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; LIVER CELL; LIVER STRUCTURE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONTENT; RAT; RIBOSOME; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; TIME; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; DNA; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; LIVER; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RIBOSOMES; RNA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029806227     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BJN19960064     Document Type: Article

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