Early iron deficiency produces persistent damage to visual tracts in Wistar rats

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 283-289

  DeMaman, Aline S ^a   Homem, Jefferson M ^a   Lachat, João José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Iron deficient; Morphometry; Optic nerve; Recovery; Wistar rat

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON DEFICIENCY; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; OLIGODENDROGLIA; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OPTIC TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; FEMALE; IRON; IRON, DIETARY; LACTATION; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; OLIGODENDROGLIA; OPTIC NERVE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 56349171706     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/147683008X344219     Document Type: Article

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