Quantitative morphology of mast cells in skeletal muscle of normal and genetically dystrophic mice

Anatomical Record

Volumn 247, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 341-349

  Nahirney, Patrick C ^a   Dow, Pierre R ^a   Ovalle, William K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

electron microscopy; mast cell; mouse; muscle spindle; muscular dystrophy; skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; MACROPHAGE; MAST CELL; MOUSE; MUSCLE REGENERATION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE CELLS; MAST CELLS; MICE; MICE, INBRED MDX; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, ANIMAL; NECROSIS; REGENERATION;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0031053961     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199703)247:3<341::AID-AR5>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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