Do astrocytes participate in rat spinal cord myelination?

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 80-86

  Dziewulska, Dorota ^a,b   Jamrozik, Zygmunt ^b   Podlecka, Aleksandra ^a   RafaŁowska, Janina ^a,b  

^a MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Astrogliosis; Myelination; Rat development

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; MYELINATED NERVE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; RATS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0032610419     PISSN: 00283894     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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