The vascular bed in the rabbit ear: Microangiography and scanning electron microscopy of vascular corrosion casts

Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 301-305

  Ninomiya, H ^a  

^a AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; EAR; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; RABBIT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; ARTERIOVENOUS ANASTOMOSIS; CORROSION CASTING; EAR; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RABBITS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0034302874     PISSN: 03402096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0264.2000.00280.x     Document Type: Article

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