Effect of prior exercise training and myocardial infarction-induced heart failure on the neuronal and glial densities and the GFAP-immunoreactivity in the posterodorsal medial amygdala of rats

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1423-1425

  Salazar, Ana Paula S ^a   Quagliotto, Edson ^a   Alves, Jadson ^a   Oliveira, Fernando A ^a   Saur, Lisiani ^b   Xavier, Léder L ^b   Pagnussat, Aline S ^a   Rasia Filho, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE CIÊNCIAS DA SAÚDE DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Astrocytic cytoskeleton; Cellular density; Extended amygdala; Optical fractionator

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ASTROCYTE; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; DISEASE MODEL; GLIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CYTOSKELETON; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HEART FAILURE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84917719775     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: 16995848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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