Neuron volume in the ventral horn in Wobbler mouse motoneuron disease: A light microscope stereological study

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-98

  Dockery, P ^a,b   Tang, Y ^c   Morais, M ^a   Vacca Galloway, L L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c Pearl River Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Spinal muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL VOLUME; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; STEREOMETRY;

ANIMALIA;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MOTOR NEURONS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030963981     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-7580.1997.19110089.x     Document Type: Article

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