The hippocampus in spontaneously hypertensive rats: A quantitative microanatomical study

Neuroscience

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 251-258

  Sabbatini, M ^a   Strocchi, P ^b   Vitaioli, L ^c   Amenta, F ^a  

^a Dipto Sci Farmacologiche Med S   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Immunohistochemistry; Morphometry; Neurodegeneration; Spontaneously hypertensive rat

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

AGE; ANATOMY; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY;

EID: 0034648716     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(00)00297-9     Document Type: Article

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