Atrophy and neuron loss: Effects of a protein-deficient diet on sympathetic neurons

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 87, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 3568-3575

  Gomes, Silvio Pires ^a   Nyengaard, Jens Randel ^b   Misawa, Rúbia ^a   Girotti, Priscila Azevedo ^a   Castelucci, Patrícia ^a   Blazquez, Francisco Hernandez Javier ^a   De Melo, Mariana Pereira ^a   Ribeiro, Antonio Augusto Coppi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Coeliac ganglia; Malnutrition; Neurons; Rats; Stereology

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LEPTIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RAT; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ATROPHY; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; LEPTIN; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 71249129898     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.22167     Document Type: Article

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