Effects of total light deprivation on dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of male neonate rats

Oman Medical Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 179-183

  Jameie, Seyed Behnam E Din ^a   Abdolrahmani, Mohammad ^b   Nobakht, Maliheh ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTERNEURON; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; LIGHT; MALE; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL GROWTH; RAT; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 85012278464     PISSN: 1999768X     EISSN: 20705204     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5001/omj.2010.53     Document Type: Article

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