Ageing of substantia nigra in humans: cell loss may be compensated by hypertrophy
- 14 August 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology
- Vol. 28 (4) , 283-291
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2990.2002.00393.x
Abstract
In a stereological study of the human substantia nigra (SN), the total number of melanin‐positive and melanin‐negative neurones from 28 male subjects aged 19–92 years was estimated using a uniform sa...Keywords
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