The majority of brain mast cells in B10.PL mice is present in the hippocampal formation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 392, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 174-177

  Hendrix, Sven ^a   Warnke, Katharina ^a   Siebenhaar, Frank ^a   Peters, Eva M J ^a   Nitsch, Robert ^a   Maurer, Marcus ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Entorhinal cortex; Giemsa; Hippocampus; Thalamus; Toluidine Blue

Indexed keywords

AVIDIN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; TOLONIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL LABELING; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GIEMSA STAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MAST CELL; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; AVIDIN; CELL COUNT; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAST CELLS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SEX FACTORS; STAINING AND LABELING; THALAMUS;

EID: 28444497136     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.09.029     Document Type: Article

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