Celloidin mounting (embedding without infiltration) - A new, simple and reliable method for producing serial sections of high thickness through complete human brains and its application to stereological and immunohistochemical investigations

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-59

  Heinsen, Helmut ^a   Arzberger, Thomas ^b   Schmitz, Christoph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Human brain; Myeloarchitectonics; Neuron number; Neuropathology; Stereology; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL COUNT; CORPUS STRIATUM; EMBEDDING; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROTOME; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOLOGY; TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; COLLODION; DESICCATION; FEMALE; GELATIN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; PLASTIC EMBEDDING;

EID: 0033789408     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-0618(00)00067-3     Document Type: Article

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