Immunohistochemistry of neural markers for the study of the laminar architecture in celloidin sections from the human cerebral cortex

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 69-79

  Miguel Hidalgo, José Javier ^a   Rajkowska, Grazyna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigen retrieval; Calcium binding proteins; Celloidin removal; Cortical layers; Cytoskeleton; Morphometry

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CALBINDIN; CALRETININ; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PARVALBUMIN; PYROXYLIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL TYPE; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032743588     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(99)00114-4     Document Type: Article

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