Rostrocaudal and ventrodorsal change in neuronal cell size in human medial vestibular nucleus

Anatomical Record

Volumn 246, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 403-409

  Díaz, Celso ^a   Suárez, Carlos ^b   Navarro, Ana ^c   Del Rey, Carmen González ^c   Alvarez, Juán Carlos ^c   Méndez, Elena ^c   Tolivia, Jorge ^c  

^a HOSPITAL SAN AGUSTÍN   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

3 D reconstruction; Cytoarchitectonic; Human; Morphometric; Neuroanatomy; Structure; Vestibular nuclei

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOARCHITECTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ADULT; BRAIN STEM; CELL SIZE; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 0029908963     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199611)246:3<403::AID-AR11>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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