Age-related change and its sex differences in histoarchitecture of the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus of F344/N rats

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 147-155

  Tsukahara, Shinji ^a   Tanaka, Shin ^b   Ishida, Kouzo ^a   Hoshi, Nobuhiko ^a   Kitagawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Astroglial cell; F344 N rats; Neuronal cell; Sex differences; Suprachiasmatic nucleus

Indexed keywords

CRESOL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STAINING; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 14844309309     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2004.10.003     Document Type: Article

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