Cellular and subcellular localizations of nonheme ferric and ferrous iron in the rat brain: A light and electron microscopic study by the perfusion-Perls and -Turnbull methods

Archives of Histology and Cytology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 205-222

  Meguro, Reiko ^a   Asano, Yoshiya ^a   Odagiri, Saori ^a   Li, Chengtai ^a   Shoumura, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC ION; FERROUS ION; IRON; NONHEME IRON PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; LYSOSOME; MICROGLIA; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PERICYTE; RAT; AGE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PERFUSION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; FEMALE; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; MICROGLIA; NONHEME IRON PROTEINS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PERFUSION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 65549099134     PISSN: 09149465     EISSN: 13491717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1679/aohc.71.205     Document Type: Article

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