Development of the human lateral vestibular nucleus: A morphometric evaluation

Early Human Development

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 23-33

  Fujii, Mayumi ^a   Goto, Noboru ^a   Onagi, Susumu ^a   Okada, Akira ^b   Kida, Akinori ^c  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain stem; Human fetus; Neuroanatomy; Serial sections

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN STEM; CELL SIZE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DRAWING; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPIL; NEWBORN; TISSUE SECTION; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 0030936772     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(96)01800-2     Document Type: Article

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