Vacuolar neuritic dystrophy in aged mouse superior cervical sympathetic ganglia is strain-specific

Brain Research

Volumn 806, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 141-151

  Schmidt, Robert E ^a   Dorsey, Denise A ^a   Beaudet, Lucie N ^a   Plurad, Santiago B ^a   Parvin, Curtis A ^a   Bruch, Leslie A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Mouse strain; Neuroaxonal dystrophy

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NECK; NEURITES; NEUROAXONAL DYSTROPHIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; VACUOLES;

EID: 0032576028     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00678-7     Document Type: Article

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