Author/Editor		Štiblar-Martinčič, D; Kališnik, M
Title		The influence of pinealectomy on the microscopical structure of rat thyroid gland
Type		članek
Source		Acta Stereol
Vol. and No.		Letnik 11, št. Suppl 1
Publication year		1992
Volume		str. 729-34
Language		eng
Abstract		In May-June the experiment was performed on 9 adult male Wistar strain rats, 3 of them pinealectomized, 3 sham pinealectomized and 3 intact as controls. One month after operation all animals were sacrificed. 6 micro m thick step serial sections of the thyroid gland were analysed stereologically. Significant differences were found in the epithelium volume density, thyroid gland activation index, volume density of the follicular cells and their nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio, volume density of parafollicular cells and their nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio, their average volume and average volume of the nuclei of the parafollicular cells are in congruence with the hypothesis of the stimulating effect of pinealectomy on the thyroid gland.
Descriptors		THYROID GLAND PINEAL BODY RATS, WISTAR