Forebrain white matter in spontaneously hypertensive rats: A quantitative image analysis study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 265, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-8

  Sabbatini, Maurizio ^a   Baldoni, Emilia ^b   Cadoni, Angela ^c   Vitaioli, Lucia ^b   Zicca, Antonio ^c   Amenta, Francesco ^a  

^a Dipto Sci Farmacologiche Med S   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Forebrain; Histochemistry; Hypertension; Morphology; Rat; White matter

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MYELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SIZE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLIOSIS; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MYELINATED NERVE; NEOSTRIATUM; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY;

EID: 0033537821     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00151-2     Document Type: Article

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