Human olfactory bulb: Aging of glomeruli and mitral cells and a search for the accessory olfactory bulb

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 855, Issue , 1998, Pages 708-715

  Meisami, Esmail ^a   Mikhail, Laura ^a   Baim, Darrin ^a   Bhatnagar, Kunwar P ^b  

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

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CELL DENSITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MITRAL CELL; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0032459089     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10649.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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