Microvascular patterns in human medullary tegmentum at the level of the area postrema

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 206, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 405-410

  Porzionato, Andrea ^a   Macchi, Veronica ^a   Morsut, Leonardo ^a   Parenti, Anna ^a   De Caro, Raffaele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anti von Willebrand factor; Dorsal motor vagal nucleus; Human; Microvessel density; Solitary tract nucleus

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; AREA POSTREMA; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOGLOSSAL NUCLEUS; INFANT; MALE; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEGMENTUM; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; VAGUS NERVE NUCLEUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA POSTREMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 17444369418     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2005.00399.x     Document Type: Article

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