Title | Scanning Electron Microscopy of Vascular Casts: Methods and Applications [electronic resource] / edited by Pietro M. Motta, Takuro Murakami, Hisao Fujita |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1992 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3488-4 |
Descript | XIII, 390 p. online resource |
1. Historical review and technical survey of vascular casting and scanning electron microscopy -- 2. Routine methods for vascular casting and SEM -- 3. Microvascular corrosion casting in angiogenesis research -- 4. Corrosion cast technique applied to lymphatic pathways -- 5. Blood and lymphatic microvascular organization of the digestive tract -- 6. Three-dimensional architecture of blood, lymphatic, and biliary pathways in the liver by SEM of corrosion casts -- 7. Morphological features of absorbing peripheral lymphatic vessels studied by TEM, SEM, and three-dimensional models -- 8. Relationship of blood microvasculature to structure and function in lymphoid tissue -- 9. Open and closed circulation in the spleen as evidenced by SEM of vascular casts -- 10. The lung microstructure -- 11. Postnatal development and growth of the pulmonary microvasculature -- 12. Microvasculature of bone and bone marrow -- 13. Pericyte topography of the microvasculature of skeletal muscle: Correlated analysis of corrosion casts and KOH-digested specimens -- 14. Blood vascular casting in cardiac and skeletal muscle -- 15. Vasculature of the carotid body as observed by scanning electron microscopy of vascular casts -- 16. Organization and age-related changes of the rat hypophyseal blood vascular plexuses and portal vessels as observed by the injection replica SEM method -- 17. Blood vascular casts of the thyroid gland in normal and experimental conditions -- 18. Blood vascular beds of rabbit uterus and oviduct: A study of corrosion casts by scanning electron microscopy -- 19. The ovary: Three-dimensional morphodynamics of the luteo-follicular complex by SEM of corrosion casts and other EM techniques -- 20. Structural and functional aspects of placental microvasculature -- 21. Three-dimensional microvascular architecture of the testis and excurrent duct system studied by corrosion casting-scanning electron microscopy -- 22. Blood vessels of the eye and their changes in diabetes -- 23. Effects of antigen stimulation and irradiation on the blood vascular system of murine lymph nodes -- 24. The fundamental vascular structures in epithelial cancer demonstrated in an experimental lung carcinoma -- 25. Angiomorphology of the human larynx and renal carcinoma. A comparative study -- 26. Interpretation of endothelial structure related to tumor and atherosclerotic blood vessels