Ultrastructural changes in the deep cortical pyramidal cells of infant rats with inherited hydrocephalus and the effect of shunt treatment

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 377-388

  Boillat, C A ^a   Jones, H C ^b   Kaiser, G L ^a   Harris, N G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; HYDROCEPHALUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SHUNTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031258145     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1997.6617     Document Type: Article

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