Quantitative ultrastructural evidences suggest no age-related changes in biosynthesis and processing within parvocellular cells of the paraventricular nucleus in hamsters

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 91-103

  Navarro, Ana ^a   Tolivia, Jorge ^a   Alvarez Uría, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; Electron microscopy; Hamster; Hypothalamus; Morphology

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN; PROTEIN;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOLGI COMPLEX; HAMSTER; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CRICETINAE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM, ROUGH; GOLGI APPARATUS; HORMONES; LIPOFUSCIN; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; NEURONS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 0032100762     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-6374(98)00036-0     Document Type: Article

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