Characteristics of age-related changes in rat thymus: Morphometric analysis and epithelial cell network in various thymic compartments

Biogerontology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-108

  Brelinska, Renata ^a   Malendowicz, Ludwik K ^a   Malinska, Agnieszka ^a   Kowalska, Katarzyna ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aging; Cytokeratin immunoreactivity; Female rat; Morphometry; Proliferation; Thymic epithelial cells

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENESCENCE; THYMUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 39949084498     PISSN: 13895729     EISSN: 15736768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10522-007-9117-3     Document Type: Article

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