Ultrastructural anatomy of the renal nerves in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 1119, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 94-100

  Sato, Karina Laurenti ^a   Márcia do Carmo, Jussara ^a   Fazan, Valéria Paula Sassoli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Morphometry; Myelinated fiber; Normotensive rat; Renal nerve; Transmission electron microscopy; Unmyelinated fiber

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; KIDNEY NERVE; MALE; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; MORPHOMETRICS; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATED NERVE; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; KIDNEY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RENAL ARTERY; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 33750483976     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.08.044     Document Type: Article

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