Demonstration of amoeboid and ramified microglial cells in pre- and postnatal bovine brains by lectin histochemistry

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-31

  Hewicker Trautwein, M ^a,b   Schultheis, G ^a   Trautwein, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bovine brain; Griffonia simplicifolia B4 isolectin; Lectin histochemistry; Microglia; Mistletoe lectin I; Ricinus communis agglutinin I; Tissue fixation

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSE; LECTIN; VISCUM ALBUM LECTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CATTLE; CELL TYPE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EMBRYO; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MICROGLIA; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; RICINUS COMMUNIS; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; STAINING; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 0030029219     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0940-9602(96)80006-9     Document Type: Article

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