Are There One Million Nerve Fibres in the Human Medullary Pyramid?

Okajimas Folia Anatomica Japonica

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 221-224

  Wada, Akira ^a   Goto, Jun ^a   Goto, Noboru ^a   Kawamura, Noriyoshi ^a   Matsumoto, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axon; Glia; Medulla oblongata; Morphometry; Pyramidal tract

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CYTOLOGY; GLIA; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; STAINING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; AXONS; CADAVER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; NEUROGLIA; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 0035290703     PISSN: 0030154X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2535/ofaj1936.77.6_221     Document Type: Article

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