Ultrastructural study of normal and degenerating nerve fibers in the protocerebral tract of the crab Ucides cordatus

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 145-157

  Corrêa, Clynton Lourenço ^a   Allodi, Silvana ^a   Martinez, Ana Maria Blanco ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Ilha da Cidade Universitaria   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Axon degeneration; Crustaceans; Protocerebral tract; Ultrastructure; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AXOPLASM; BLOOD CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRAB; CYTOPLASM; GLIA CELL; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); UCIDES CORDATUS; VERTEBRATA; WALLERIA;

EID: 24744438180     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000087155     Document Type: Article

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