Three-dimensional structure of peripheral exocrine gland in rat pancreas: Reconstruction using transmission electron microscopic examination of serial sections

Pancreas

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 401-404

  Ashizawa, Nobuo ^a   Sakai, Toshio ^b   Yoneyama, Tsunao ^c   Naora, Hiroyuki ^d   Kinoshita, Yoshikazu ^e  

^a Tamatsukuri Kousei Nenkin Hospital   (Japan)

^b SAKAI Electron Microscope Application Laboratory   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Shimane Women's Collage ^*  (Japan)

^e SHIMANE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central lumen; Centroacinar cell; Pancreatic exocrine gland; Reconstruction; Three dimensional structure; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ACINAR CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EXOCRINE CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PANCREAS DUCT; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PANCREAS, EXOCRINE; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 27644575654     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mpa.0000181488.27399.dd     Document Type: Article

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