Morphological alterations produced by zinc deficiency in rat sciatic nerve: A histological, electron microscopic, and stereological study

Brain Research

Volumn 1048, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 228-234

  Ünal, Bünyami ^a   Tan, Hüseyin ^a   Orbak, Zerrin ^a   Kiki, Ilhami ^a   Bilici, Mehmet ^a   Bilici, Nizamettin ^a   Aslan, Hüseyin ^b   Kaplan, Süleyman ^c  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZIOSMANPASA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Axon number; Rat; Sciatic nerve; Stereology; Zinc deficiency

Indexed keywords

MYELIN; RESIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEREOLOGY; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FOOD, FORMULATED; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MYELIN SHEATH; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; SCIATIC NERVE; ZINC;

EID: 20444405359     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.05.001     Document Type: Article

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