Quantitative morphological changes in neurons from the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of young and old rats

Anatomical Record

Volumn 248, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 137-141

  Villena, Alicia ^a   Díaz, Florentina ^a   Requena, Virginia ^a   Chavarría, Isabel ^a   Rius, Francisca ^a   Pérez De Vargas, Ignacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

aging; dLGN; quantitative; shape; size

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RAT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0030953544     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199705)248:1<137::AID-AR16>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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