No age-related cell loss in three retinal nuclear layers of the Long-Evans rat

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 799-803

  Feng, Lixia ^a   Sun, Zhaoxia ^a   Han, Hui ^a   Zhou, Yifeng ^b   Zhang, Ming ^c  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aging; Cell number; Long Evans rat; Retina; Stereological method

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CELL VOLUME; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; FEMALE; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; RETINA OUTER NUCLEAR LAYER; STEREOMETRY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL COUNT; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETINA;

EID: 37549026171     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523807070721     Document Type: Article

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