Morphological Features in Human Cortical Brain Microvessels after Head Injury: A Three-Dimensional and Immunocytochemical Study

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 273, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 583-593

  Rodríguez Baeza, Alfonso ^a   Reina De La Torre, Francisco ^a   Poca, Antonia ^b   Martí, Mercè ^a   Garnacho, Angel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cell damage; Cortical microvessels; Head injury; Human cerebral cortex; Morphological changes

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY MAS 336; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN CAPILLARY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NICK END LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 18144435905     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.10069     Document Type: Article

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