Effects of prenatal protein malnutrition on mossy fibers of the hippocampal formation in rats of four age groups

Hippocampus

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 184-191

  Cintra, León ^a   Granados, Leticia ^b   Aguilar, Azucena ^a   Kemper, Thomas ^c   DeBassio, William ^c   Galler, Janina ^d   Morgane, Peter ^d,e   Durán, Pilar ^a   Díaz Cintra, Sofía ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer assisted image analysis; Dentate granule cells; Dentate gyrus; Morphometric Timm study

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; FETUS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; RAT; STAIN;

EID: 0030935513     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1997)7:2<184::AID-HIPO5>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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