Neuronal loss in human medial vestibular nucleus

Anatomical Record

Volumn 251, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 431-438

  Alvarez, Juan Carlos ^a   Díaz, Celso ^a,b   Suárez, Carlos ^c   Fernández, José Antomo ^a   González Del Rey, Carmen ^a   Navarro, Ana ^a   Tolivia, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL SAN AGUSTÍN   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; Cytoarchitectonic; Morphometric; Neuroanatomy; Structure; Vestibular nuclei

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NERVE CELL LESION; NEUROANATOMY; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CADAVER; CELL COUNT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS, AFFERENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 0031819428     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199808)251:4<431::AID-AR2>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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