Comparison of perivascular astrocytic structure between white matter and gray matter of rats

Brain Research

Volumn 992, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 294-297

  Suzuki, Mitsuru ^a   Obara, Keiko ^a   Sasaki, Yuka ^b   Matoh, Koichi ^a   Kitabatake, Akihiro ^a   Sasaki, Katsuya ^a   Nunosawa, Fumiaki ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Iwate Prefectural Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Cerebellar medulla; Cerebral white matter; Corpus callosum; Fimbria; Perivascular structure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GLIA; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPAL FIMBRIA; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE SECTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0242475128     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2003.08.052     Document Type: Article

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