Three-dimensional and stereological characterization of the human substantia nigra during aging

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 221, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 3393-3403

  Di Lorenzo Alho, Ana Tereza ^a,b,c   Suemoto, Claudia Kimie ^a   Polichiso, Lívia ^a   Tampellini, Edilaine ^a   de Oliveira, Kátia Cristina ^a,b   Molina, Mariana ^a   Santos, Glaucia Aparecida Bento ^a,c   Nascimento, Camila ^a   Leite, Renata Elaine Paraizo ^a   de Lucena Ferreti Rebustini, Renata Eloah ^a   da Silva, Alexandre Valotta ^a,c   Nitrini, Ricardo ^a   Pasqualucci, Carlos Augusto ^a   Jacob Filho, Wilson ^a   Heinsen, Helmut ^a,b   Grinberg, Lea Tenenholz ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Aging brain; Celloidin mounting; Stereology; Substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

NEUROMELANIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STEM; CELL DENSITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOMETRY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 84942035624     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-015-1108-6     Document Type: Article

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