Morphometric Changes in Vagal Nerves of Fourth Generation Mice Passage-Bred in a 2-G Environment

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 387-390

  Shibata, Shigeki ^a   Kita, Sayaka ^a,b   Kim, Hyeteok ^a   Ito, Masao ^a,b   Iwasaki, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypergravity; Myelinated fiber; Parasympathetic nerve

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GRAVITY; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; TISSUE STRUCTURE; VAGUS NERVE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; HYPERGRAVITY; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 2142750206     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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