The experimental squalene encephaloneuropathy in the rat

Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 75-80

  Gajkowska, Barbara ^a,b   Smialek, M ^b   Ostrowski, R P ^b   Piotrowski, P ^b   Frontczak Baniewicz, M ^a  

^a Lab Ultrastructure Nerv Syst   (Poland)

^b MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Encephaloneuropathy; Endothelium; Squalene; Tellurium

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; SQUALENE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GOLGI COMPLEX; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MALE; MITOCHONDRION SWELLING; NERVE CELL LESION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPATHY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032908927     PISSN: 09402993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0940-2993(99)80072-4     Document Type: Article

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