Unbiased estimation of the total number of nervous cells and volume of medial mammillary nucleus in humans

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 771-782

  Begegaa, A ^a   Cuesta, M ^a   Santin L J ^a,b   Rubio, S ^a   Astudillo, A ^a   Arias, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b Psychobiology Methodol Fac P   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cavalier's principle; Mammillary bodies; Optical fractionator

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL VOLUME; GLIA CELL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; HUMANS; MALE; MAMILLARY BODIES; MAMMALS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187;

EID: 0032847416     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(99)00048-0     Document Type: Article

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