Ultrastructural changes in hepatocytes of precision-cut rat liver slices after incubation for 24 and 48 hours

Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 54, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 481-488

  Neupert, Dagmar ^a   Glöckner, Reinhild ^a,b   Neupert, Gunther ^c   Müller, Dieter ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Adaptation; Electron microscopy; Liver slices; Necrosis

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DEATH; CELL DENSITY; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; INCIDENCE; LIVER CELL; LIVER SLICE; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; OXYGEN TENSION; PARENCHYMA; RAT; RIBOSOME; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SMOOTH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037559364     PISSN: 09402993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0940-2993-00292     Document Type: Article

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