Neuronal and glial somal size in the prefrontal cortex: A postmortem morphometric study of schizophrenia and huntington disease

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 215-224

  Rajkowska, Grazyna ^a   Selemon, Lynn D ^a,b   Goldman Rakic, Patricia S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCHIZOPHRENIA; AUTOPSY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 0032498817     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.55.3.215     Document Type: Article

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