Aging and the human vestibular nucleus

Journal of Vestibular Research: Equilibrium and Orientation

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 77-85

  Lopez, Ivan ^a   Honrubia, Vicente ^a   Baloh, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; quantitative morphometry; vestibular nucleus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030987112     PISSN: 09574271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ves-1997-7107     Document Type: Article

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