Chronic exposure to constant light affects morphology and secretion of adrenal zona fasciculata cells in female rats

General Physiology and Biophysics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 299-309

  Milošević, Verica ^a   Trifunovic S ^a   Sekulic M ^a   Sosic Jurjevic B ^a   Filipovic B ^a   Negic N ^a   Nestorovic N ^a   Manojlovic Stojanoski M ^a   Starcevic V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Constant light; Corticosterone; Female rats; Zona fasciculata; Zona glomerulosa

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX CELL; ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SECRETION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DECAPITATION; DISSECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ZONA FASCICULATA; ZONA GLOMERULOSA;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 28444441666     PISSN: 02315882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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