Successive depth variations in microvascular distribution of rat somatosensory cortex

Brain Research

Volumn 995, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 66-75

  Masamoto, Kazuto ^a   Kurachi, Takayoshi ^a   Takizawa, Naosada ^b   Kobayashi, Hirosuke ^c   Tanishita, Kazuo ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Confocal laser scanning microscope; Microvascular distribution; Rat somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; METHACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGING; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN TENSION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0344872619     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2003.09.055     Document Type: Article

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