Morphometric alterations to the rat spleen following formaldehyde exposure

Folia Morphologica

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-23

  Golalipour, M J ^a   Kord, H ^a   Ghafari, S ^a   Gharravi, A M ^a   Davarian, A ^a   Fazeli, S A ^a   Azarhoush, R ^a  

^a GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Follicle; Germinal centre area; Mantle zone; Marginal zone diameter; Periarterial lymphoid sheaths; White pulp

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMINAL CENTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPLEEN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ATROPHY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LYMPHOCYTES; LYMPHOID TISSUE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPLEEN;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 40949158451     PISSN: 00155659     EISSN: 16443284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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