Pancreatic insulo-acinar portal systems in humans, rats, and some other mammals: Scanning electron microscopy of vascular casts

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 37, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 478-488

  Murakami, Takuro ^a   Hitomi, Sayoko ^a   Ohtsuka, Aiji ^a   Taguchi, Takehito ^a   Fujita, Tsuneo ^b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corrosion casting; Insulo acinar portal system; Insulo venous system; Pancreas

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS;

CORROSION CASTING; EXOCRINE PANCREAS; GUINEA PIGS; INSULO-ACINAR PORTAL SYSTEM; INSULO-VENOI SYSTEM; PANCREAS;

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ACINUS; PANCREAS ISLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CAVIA PORCELLUS; FELIS CATUS; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030847215     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19970601)37:5/6<478::AID-JEMT10>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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