Morphological and morphometrical study of human muscle spindles in Werdnig-Hoffmann disease (infantile spinal muscular atrophy type I)

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 265-269

  Kararizou, Evangelia ^a   Manta, Panajota ^a   Kalfakis, Nikolaos ^a   Gkiatas, Konstantinos ^a   Vassilopoulos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Infantile spinal muscular atrophy type I; Morphometry; Muscle spindle; Werdnig Hoffmann disease

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; DISEASES; MORPHOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

INFANTILE SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY TYPE I; MORPHOMETRY; MUSCLE SPINDLES; WERDNIG HOFFMANN DISEASES;

MUSCLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAFUSAL MUSCLE FIBER; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE SPINDLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WERDNIG HOFFMANN DISEASE;

EID: 33749533974     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2006.03.020     Document Type: Article

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