Quantitating silver-stained neurodegeneration: The neurotoxicity of trimethlytin (TMT) in aged rats

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 69-76

  Scallet, Andrew C ^a   Pothuluri, Nomita ^a   Rountree, Robert L ^a   Matthews, John C ^b  

^a National Centre   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Fink Heimer; Hippocampus; Image analysis; Neurodegeneration; Trimethyltin

Indexed keywords

TRIMETHYLTIN;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RAT; SILVER IMPREGNATION; SILVER STAINING;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SILVER STAINING; TRIMETHYLTIN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0034658346     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(00)00191-6     Document Type: Article

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