The developing cervical spinal ventral commissure of the rat: A highly controlled axon-glial system

Journal of Neurocytology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 489-501

  Lane, Sile ^a   McDermott, Kieran ^a   Dockery, Peter ^a   Fraher, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL POPULATION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL COMMISURE; STEREOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; GROWTH CONES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROGLIA; NEUROPIL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 20044388588     PISSN: 03004864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11068-004-0512-x     Document Type: Article

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