Qualitative and quantitative morphology of renal nerves in C57BL/6J mice

Anatomical Record

Volumn 268, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 399-404

  Fazan, Valéria Paula Sassoli ^a   Ma, Xiuying ^b   Chapleau, Mark W ^b,c   Barreira, Amilton Antunes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Mice; Morphology; Morphometry; Renal nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOGRAM; KIDNEY NERVE; MALE; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INNERVATION; KIDNEY; MYELINATED NERVE; NONMYELINATED NERVE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; KIDNEY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED;

EID: 0036893385     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.10174     Document Type: Article

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