Oligodendroglial sheath lengths in developing rat ventral funiculus and corpus callosum

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 85-88

  Bjartmar, Carl ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Axon; Development; Electron microscopy; Myelination; Oligodendrocyte; Rat; Serial sections; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FETUS; MYELINATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0030604017     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12990-6     Document Type: Article

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