How a highly complex three-dimensional network of blood vessels regresses: The gill blood vascular system of tadpoles of Xenopus during metamorphosis. A SEM study on microvascular corrosion casts

Microvascular Research

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 425-437

  Minnich, Bernd ^a   Bartel, Heidi ^a   Lametschwandtner, Alois ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Angioarchitecture; Gill; Regression; Scanning electron microscopy (SEM); Tadpole; Vascular corrosion casting

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CAPILLARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FETUS; GILL; GROWTH; HISTOLOGY; METAMORPHOSIS; MICROVASCULARIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VEIN; VENULE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MICROCIRCULATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULARIZATION;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUORESCEIN;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUORESCEIN; GILLS; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0036433779     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mvre.2002.2422     Document Type: Article

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