Age-related dendritic and spinal alterations of pyramidal cells of the human visual cortex

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 100-110

  Mavroudis, Ioannis A ^a,b   Manani, Marina G ^a   Petrides, Foivos ^a   Dados, Dimitrios ^a   Ciobica, Alin ^c,d   Padurariu, Manuela ^c,e   Petsoglou, Konstantina ^a   Njau, Samuel N ^a   Costa, Vasiliki G ^a,b   Baloyannis, Stavros J ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Institute for Alzheimer's Disease Research   (Greece)

^c ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

^d Octav Mayer Institute of Mathematics   (Romania)

^e GRIGORE T POPA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

3D neuronal reconstruction; Ageing; Golgi method; Pyramidal cells; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CELL BODY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTEX LAYER V; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC ARBORIZATION; DENDRITIC SPINE; GOLGI STAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SOFTWARE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NORMAL AGING; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DENDRITES; DENDRITIC SPINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84934765045     PISSN: 16414640     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/fn.2015.52406     Document Type: Article

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