Requirements for obtaining unbiased estimates of neuronal numbers in frozen sections

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 133-137

  Messina, A ^a   Sangster, C L C ^b   Morrison, W A ^a   Galea, M P ^b  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fast blue; Inert dehydration; Methacrylate; Optical dissector; Rat; Rhodamine; Sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

FAST BLUE; TETRAMETHYL RHODAMINE DEXTRAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROZEN SECTION; INSTRUMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE HISTOCHEMISTRY; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; TECHNIQUE;

AMIDINES; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DESICCATION; DEXTRANS; FLUORESCENT DYES; FROZEN SECTIONS; MALE; METHACRYLATES; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RHODAMINES; SCIATIC NERVE; TISSUE EMBEDDING;

EID: 0034656048     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(00)00177-1     Document Type: Article

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