Behavioral, morphological and histopathological effects of sublethal doses of quercetin on the species polycelis felina (Dalyell)

Folia Biologica (Poland)

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 101-106

  Rajević, Nives ^a   Matković, Helena ^a   Gregorović, Gordana ^a   Kovac̀ević, Goran ^a   Knezović, Lejla ^b   Kalafatić, Mirjana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MOSTAR   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

Deformations; Depigmentation; Neoblasts; Planarian; Quercetin; Reticular cells

Indexed keywords

QUERCETIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PLATYHELMINTH;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PLATYHELMINTHS; QUERCETIN;

ANIMALIA; PLANARIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; POLYCELIS FELINA;

EID: 84876334909     PISSN: 00155497     EISSN: 17349168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3409/fb61_1-2.101     Document Type: Article

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