Ultrastructure of Rat Purkinje Neurons after Chronic Ethanol Consumption and Prolonged Abstinence

Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 93-98

  Wenisch, S ^a   Hild, A ^a   Bitsch, I ^a   Leiser, R ^a   Hummel, G ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ALCOHOL; LIPOFUSCIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOPLASM; DOSE RESPONSE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GOLGI COMPLEX; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; CYTOPLASM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; GOLGI APPARATUS; LIPOFUSCIN; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; ORGANELLES; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0031155058     PISSN: 03402096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0264.1997.tb00106.x     Document Type: Article

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