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Quantitative ultrastructural study of somatotropic cells in malnourished weanling rats
C L Gómez Dumm1, H M Pucciarelli, V Dressino
1Instituto de Embriología, Biología e Histología, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
Acta Anatomica
|January 1, 1987
Abstract:
A quantitative ultrastructural study of somatotropic cells was carried out in 21-day-old malnourished rats after maternal food restriction during the nursing period. Changes represented mainly by a reduced cytoplasmic mass and diminished secretory material were found. A decrease in growth hormone secretion of malnourished weanling rats is suggested.