MRI of postmortem specimens of endangered species for comparative brain anatomy

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 597-605

  Corfield, Jeremy R ^a,b   Wild, J Martin ^a   Cowan, Brett R ^a   Parsons, Stuart ^b   Kubke, M Fabiana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FROZEN SECTION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; THAWING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE FIXATION;

ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALAEOGNATHAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

APTERYX; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 42049095243     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.17     Document Type: Article

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