Neonatal cryoanesthesia affects the morphology of the visual cortex in the adult rat

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 89-98

  Nuñez, Joseph L ^a   Kim, Bennet Y ^a   Juraska, Janice M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Cortical development; Hypothermia; Neuron number; Sex differences; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOANESTHESIA; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; NERVE CELL LESION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0032212060     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(98)00125-4     Document Type: Article

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