Histomorphometric analysis of the effects of creatine on rat myometrium

Gynecological Endocrinology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 587-589

  Do Amaral, Vinícius Cestari ^a   Simões, Manuel De Jesus ^b   Marcondes, Rodrigo Rodrigues ^a   Matozinho Cubas, Jairo José ^b   Chada Baracat, Edmund ^a   Soares, José Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Creatine; histology; morphology; myometrium; rats

Indexed keywords

CREATINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FOLLICLE CYST; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; MYOMETRIUM; MYOMETRIUM THICKNESS; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; UTERUS;

EID: 84863880139     PISSN: 09513590     EISSN: 14730766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09513590.2011.650748     Document Type: Article

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