Morphometric and some immunohistochemical characteristics of human choroids plexus stroma and psammoma bodies

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 617-627

  Jovanović, Ivan ^a,b   Ugrenović, Sladjana ^a   Antić, Svetlana ^a   Stefanović, Natalija ^a   Mihailović, Dragan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

^b Medical Faculty   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Aging; Choroids plexus; Morphometry; Psammoma bodies; T cells

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY;

CHOROID PLEXUS; HISTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HISTOCHEMICAL METHODS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL METHODS; MORPHOMETRIC METHOD; MORPHOMETRICS; MORPHOMETRY; PSAMMOMA BODY;

T-CELLS;

CD45RO ANTIGEN;

AGING; ARTICLE; CELL COMPOSITION; CHOROID PLEXUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSAMMOMA BODY; STROMA CELL;

EID: 34447252375     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20442     Document Type: Article

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