Relation between myelin area and axon diameter in the aortic depressor nerve of spontaneously hypertensive rats

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 130-136

  Sassoli Fazan, Valéria Paula ^a   Salgado, Helio Cesar ^a   Dos Reis, Geraldo Cássio ^a   Barreira, Amilton Antunes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Experimental hypertension; Light microscopy; Morphometry; Peripheral nerve; Regression lines

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AORTA NERVE; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REMYELINIZATION; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT;

ANIMALS; AORTA; ATROPHY; AXONS; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CELL SIZE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 26944454421     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2005.04.007     Document Type: Article

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