A Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopic Study of Contractile Trabecules in the Rat Spleen

Okajimas Folia Anatomica Japonica

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 187-200

  Kimura, Kazuo ^a   Fusano, Takami ^a   Tanaka, Yoko ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contractile trabecules; EM; Rat spleen; Red pulp

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; INNERVATION; MALE; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPLEEN; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULARIZATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPLEEN;

EID: 0041330129     PISSN: 0030154X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2535/ofaj1936.78.5_187     Document Type: Article

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