The cerebral cortex of spontaneously hypertensive rats: A quantitative microanatomical study

Clinical and Experimental Hypertension

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 287-303

  Mignini, Fiorenzo ^a   Vitaioli, Lucia ^a   Sabbatini, Maurizio ^b   Tomassoni, Daniele ^a   Amenta, Francesco ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^c Dipto Sci Farmacologiche Med S   (Italy)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Cerebral cortex; Hypertension; Rat; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NECROSIS; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COUNT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HYPERPLASIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RISK FACTOR; SENSORY CORTEX; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ASTROCYTES; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FRONTAL LOBE; HYPERTENSION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; NEURONS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY;

EID: 2542421994     PISSN: 10641963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/CEH-120034135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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