Stereological estimation of the total number of neurons in the murine hippocampus using the optical disector

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 408, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 560-566

  Abusaad, Iman ^a   MacKay, Daniel ^a   Zhao, Jinghua ^a   Stanford, Paul ^a   Collier, David A ^a   Everall, Ian P ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cavalieri; Dentate gyrus; Mouse; Pyramidal cell; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DENTATE GYRUS; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; STEREOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, INBRED NZB; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033553807     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990614)408:4<560::AID-CNE9>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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