Morphogenesis of Postmortem Hepatocyte Vacuolation and Liver Weight Increases in Sprague-Dawley Rats

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 682-688

  Xiantang li, ^a   Elwell, Michael R ^a   Ryan, Anne M ^a   Ochoa, Ricardo ^a  

^a PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

artifact; fasted; Hepatocyte; liver weight; nonfasted; postmortem; rat; vacuolation

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BODY WEIGHT; BREATHING; CADAVER; CELL VACUOLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CONGESTION; LIVER SINUSOID; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

ANIMALS; AUTOLYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HEPATOCYTES; LIVER; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VACUOLES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0242637134     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01926230390241981     Document Type: Article

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