Morphological analysis of spine shapes of Purkinje cell dendrites in the rat cerebellum using high-voltage electron microscopy

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 359, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 21-24

  Lee, Kea Joo ^a   Kim, Hyun ^a   Kim, Tae Sik ^a   Park, Sun Hwa ^a   Rhyu, Im Joo ^a  

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Dendritic spines; Golgi impregnation; High voltage electron microscopy; Purkinje cells; Stereoscopic images

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GOLGI COMPLEX; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; DENDRITES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 1842504415     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.01.071     Document Type: Article

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