Design based stereological methods for estimating the total number of objects in histological material

Folia Morphologica

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 11-19

  West, M J ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cell counting; Design based; Disector; Stereology; Unbiased

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL SURFACE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; RAT; REVIEW; SAMPLING; STEREOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035106856     PISSN: 00155659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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