Age-related changes in nestin immunoreactivity in the rat pituitary gland

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-30

  Gautron, Laurent ^a,b   De Smedt, Véronique ^a   Layé, Sophie ^a  

^a NutriNeuro Bordeaux University   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Endothelium; Hyperplasia; Immunohistochemistry; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

NESTIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE CELL; GLIA CELL; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS INTERMEDIATE LOBE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD VESSELS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ENDOCRINE CELLS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDOLES; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; THYROTROPIN;

EID: 67651111842     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000220994     Document Type: Article

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