Measurement of the vertebral canal dimensions of the neck of the rat with a comparison to the human

Anatomical Record

Volumn 290, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 893-899

  Flynn, Jamie R ^a   Bolton, Philip S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b HUNTER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cervical vertebra; Morphology; Neck; Spine

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NECK; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VERTEBRA;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NECK; POSTURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 34547437661     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20523     Document Type: Article

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