Morphological development of microglia in the postnatal rat brain: A quantitative study

International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 445-450

  Orłowski, Dariusz ^a   Sołtys, Zbigniew ^a   Janeczko, Krzysztof ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Development; Microglia macrophages; Quantitative morphology

Indexed keywords

LECTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERE; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SOLID; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0344083340     PISSN: 07365748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2003.09.001     Document Type: Article

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