Morphology of aging lung in F344/N rat: Alveolar size, connective tissue, and smooth muscle cell markers

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 272, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 538-547

  Yamamoto, Yoshio ^a,d   Tanaka, Akiko ^a   Kanamaru, Arata ^b   Tanaka, Shin ^c   Tsubone, Hirokazu ^b   Atoji, Yasuro ^a   Suzuki, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^d IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collagen; Elastin; F344 N rat; Lung; Morphometry; Smooth muscle cells

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; DESMIN; ELASTIN; FUCHSINE; VIMENTIN;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG ALVEOLUS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0141473237     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.10172     Document Type: Article

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