Design of cerebellar and nontegmental rhombencephalic microvascular bed in the sterlet, Acipenser ruthenus: A scanning electron microscope and 3D morphometry study of vascular corrosion casts

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 376-389

  Stöttinger, Bernhard ^a   Klein, Martin ^a   Minnich, Bernd ^a   Lametschwandtner, Alois ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

3D morphometry; Acipenser; Brain; Microvascularization; Optimality principles; Scanning electron microscopy; Vascular castings

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN VEIN; CEREBELLUM; FISH; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL VEINS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CORROSION CASTING; FISHES; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

ACIPENSER; ACIPENSER RUTHENUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33750409054     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927606060296     Document Type: Article

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