Structural and functional features of choroid epithelium from buffalo brain

Anatomical Record

Volumn 290, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1399-1412

  Scala, Gaetano ^a   Corona, Marco ^b   Pavone, Luigi Michele ^a   Pelagalli, Alessandra ^a   De Girolamo, Paolo ^a   Staiano, Norma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CARDARELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Buffalo brain; Choroid plexus; NADPH d; nNOS; Scanning electron microscopy; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BUFFALO; CAPILLARY; CELL CONTACT; CELL POPULATION; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHOROID PLEXUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNAPSE; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; CHOROID PLEXUS; EPITHELIUM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

EID: 35948999305     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20603     Document Type: Article

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