Alcoholism and cellular vulnerability in different brain regions

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 40-47

  Skuja, Sandra ^a   Groma, Valerija ^a   Smane, Liene ^a  

^a RIGA STRADINS UNIVERSITY   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Alcohol; electron microscopy; myelin sheath; prefrontal cortex; striatum; substantia nigra; synapses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; AUTOPSY; CORPUS STRIATUM; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 84856514935     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: 15210758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01913123.2011.629770     Document Type: Article

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