The effect of pinealectomy and foetal pineal transplantation on collagen ageing in rats

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 138, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1224-1229

  Berker, M ^a,b   Palaoglu S ^a   Ozcan O E ^a   Erbengi, A ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ageing; Collagen; Pineal gland; Pinealectomy; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; FLUORESCEIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; NONHUMAN; PINEAL BODY; PINEALECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TRANSPLANTATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; PINEAL GLAND; RATS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0029955924     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01809752     Document Type: Article

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