Aspects of the quantitative analysis of neurons in the cerebral cortex

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 201-210

  Skoglund, T S ^a   Pascher, R ^a   Berthold, C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

brain; cytoarchitecture; disector; neuron counting; stereology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NEURONS; NISSL BODIES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 0030605275     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(96)00119-7     Document Type: Article

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