Morphometry of axon cytoskeleton at internodal regions of rat sciatic nerve during aging

Gerontology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 307-311

  Caselli, Ugo ^a   Bertoni Freddari, Carlo ^a   Paoloni, Roberta ^a   Fattoretti, Patrizia ^a   Casoli, Tiziana ^a   Meier Ruge, William ^b  

^a INRCA   (Italy)

^b University Medical School   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Axonal cytoskeleton; Axonal transport and aging; Axoplasm aging; Computer assisted morphometry; Microtubules; Neurofilaments; Sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

CACODYLIC ACID; FORMALDEHYDE; GLUTARALDEHYDE; MYELIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AGING; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXOPLASM FLOW; CELL DENSITY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; LAMELLAR BODY; MICROTUBULE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; THICKNESS;

AGING; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; CYTOSKELETON; FEMALE; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; MYELIN SHEATH; RANVIER'S NODES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 0032726644     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022110     Document Type: Article

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