The Connective Tissue Compartment in the Terminal Region of the Developing Rat Lung: An Ultrastructural Study

Acta Anatomica

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 268-282

  Wasowicz, M ^a   Yokoyama, S ^a   Kashima, K ^a   Nakayama, I ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Connective tissue; ECM; Lung development; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FIBROBLAST; HISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; COLLAGEN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; LUNG; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 0031029371     PISSN: 00015180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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