Aging changes of the angioarchitecture and arterial morphology of the spinal cord in rats

Gerontology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 360-365

  Qiu, Ming Guo ^a   Zhu, Xing Hong ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aging of ventral spinal artery; Arterial morphology, rat spinal cord; Capillary density; Elastic fiber; Rat spinal cord; Ventral spinal artery

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; INK;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOXIA; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTIC FIBER; ELASTICITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GELATION; GRAY MATTER; GROUPS BY AGE; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INJECTION; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROCIRCULATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; STEREOMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUNICA MEDIA; WHITE MATTER;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ARTERIES; CAPILLARIES; CORROSION CASTING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; VASCULAR DISEASES; VEINS;

EID: 5644304176     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080173     Document Type: Article

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