Histological and ultrastructural study of the effect of chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil on normal liver of Wistar rats

Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 298-302

  Zafiriou, G ^a   Grekou, Alexandra ^a,c   Stravoravdi, P ^a   Natsis, K ^b   Barich, A ^b  

^a THEAGENIO CANCER HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

5 Fluorouracil; Histology; Normal rat liver; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DRUG EFFECT; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LIVER; LIVER CELL; LYSOSOME; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOLOGY; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; FLUOROURACIL; LIVER; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036966854     PISSN: 00093157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000069711     Document Type: Article

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