No reduction with ageing of the number of myenteric neurons in benzalkonium chloride treated rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 331, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 66-68

  Garcia, S B ^a   Demarzo, M M P ^a   Vinhadeli, W S ^a   Llorach Velludo, M A ^a   Zoteli, J ^a   Herrero, C F P S ^a   Zucoloto, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ageing; Benzalkonium chloride; Colon denervation; Myenteric plexus

Indexed keywords

BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CELL POPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TIME;

AGING; ANIMALS; BENZALKONIUM COMPOUNDS; CELL COUNT; COLON, SIGMOID; MALE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0037020513     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00832-7     Document Type: Article

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