Nutritional effects on neuron numbers

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 141-152

  Bedi, K S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Cortex; Hippocampus; Malnutrition; Olfactory lobes; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; MALNUTRITION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; REVIEW; STEREOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENTATE GYRUS; NEURONS; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038750840     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1028415031000098549     Document Type: Review

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