Characteristics of blood vessels feeding the femoral head liable to osteonecrosis in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Calcified Tissue International

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 201-205

  Hirano, T ^a   Majima, R ^a   Yoshida, G ^a   Iwasaki, K ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lateral epiphyseal vessels; Osteonecrosis of the femoral head; Spontaneously hypertensive rat; Three dimensional structure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC NECROSIS; BONE BLOOD FLOW; FEMUR HEAD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0029987952     PISSN: 0171967X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02526888     Document Type: Article

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