Feeding manipulation elicits different proliferative responses in the gastrointestinal tract of suckling and weanling rats

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 565-572

  Palanch, A C ^a   Alvares, E P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cell proliferation; Crypt and villus size; Developing rats; Esophagus; Milk deprivation; Small intestine

Indexed keywords

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CYTOLOGY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; INTESTINE MUCOSA; RAT; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH MUCOSA; SUCKLING; TIME; WEANING; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; CELL DIVISION; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GASTRIC MUCOSA; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS; WEANING;

EID: 0032042903     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: 1414431X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X1998000400015     Document Type: Article

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