Correlation between the age of pinealectomy and the development of scoliosis in chickens

Spine

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1014-1021

  Inoh, Hidefumi ^a,b,c   Kawakami, Noriaki ^a,b,c   Matsuyama, Yukihiro ^a,b,c   Aoki, Takaaki ^a,b,c   Kanemura, Tokumi ^a,b,c   Natsume, Naoki ^a,b,c   Iwata, Hisashi ^a,b,c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Meijyo Hospital   (Japan)

^c JAPANESE RED CROSS NAGOYA FIRST HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age; Chicken; Melatonin; Pinealectomy; Scoliosis

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PINEALECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SCOLIOSIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHICKENS; FEMALE; MELATONIN; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PINEAL GLAND; SCOLIOSIS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0035338721     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200105010-00006     Document Type: Article

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