Use of the Picrosirius-polarization method to age fibrotic lesions in the hepatic granulomas produced in experimental murine schistosomiasis

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 265-272

  Andrade, G B ^a   Montes, G S ^b   Conceicao G M S ^b   Saldiva, P H N ^b  

^a Pelotas   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN FIBER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; LIGHT; LIVER GRANULOMA; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; STAINING; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 0032798297     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1999.11813422     Document Type: Article

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