Ultrastructure of rat seminal vesicle epithelium in the acute phase of spinal cord transection

Neurological Research

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 487-492

  Dashtdar, Havva ^a   Valojerdi, Mojtaba Rezazadeh ^a,b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Seminal vesicle; Spinal cord injury; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET; LIPOFUSCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CELL SWELLING; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EPITHELIUM; EUCHROMATIN; GOLGI COMPLEX; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SECRETORY GRANULE; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEMINAL VESICLE DISEASE; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINAL VESICLES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 47549112362     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164108X268287     Document Type: Article

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