Vascular network of the rat hippocampus is not homogeneous along the septotemporal axis

Brain Research

Volumn 971, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 245-249

  Grivas, I ^a   Michaloudi, H ^a   Batzios, Ch ^a   Chiotelli, M ^a   Papatheodoropoulos, C ^b   Kostopoulos, G ^b   Papadopoulos, G C ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Capillary; Hippocampal subfield; Image analysis; Ischemia; Vascularization

Indexed keywords

INDIAN INK;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CAPILLARY; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0037427377     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(03)02475-2     Document Type: Article

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