Quantitative age-related changes in dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus relay neurons of the rat

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 387-396

  Vidal, Lourdes ^a   Ruíz, Concepción ^a   Villena, Alicia ^a   Díaz, Florentina ^a   De Vargas, Ignacio Pérez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

C; CCs; Cell; Central nervous system; CNS; Complex convolutions; Cy; Cytoplasm; DB; Dense bodies; dLGN; Dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus; LBs; M; Mitochondria; Multilaminated bodies; N; Nt; Nu; Nucleolus; Nucleus; Numerical density; Nv; PB; Phosphate buffer; Total number

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSE BODY; INTERNEURON; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SOMATIC CELL;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGING; ANIMALS; GENICULATE BODIES; INCLUSION BODIES; LIPOFUSCIN; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 1642302270     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2003.12.004     Document Type: Article

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