Pituitary pars intermedia of male viscacha (lagostomus maximus maximus): A morphometric study of seasonal and age-related changes in immunohistochemistry

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 190, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 219-229

  Acosta, Mariano ^a   Mohamed, Fabian ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Age; Immunohistochemistry; Lagostomus; Pituitary pars intermedia; Season

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; COLLOID; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FOLLICULOSTELLATE CELL; HYPOPHYSIS INTERMEDIATE LOBE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMATURITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAGOSTOMUS MAXIMUS MAXIMUS; MALE; MELANOTROPH; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; STELLATE CELL; VASCULARIZATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND, INTERMEDIATE; RODENTIA; SEASONS;

ANIMALIA; LAGOSTOMUS; LAGOSTOMUS MAXIMUS;

EID: 70349284777     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000204751     Document Type: Article

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