About assumptions in estimation of density of neurons and glial cells [2] (multiple letters)

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 840-842

  Uylings, Harry B M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; MESSENGER RNA;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CADAVER; CELL ASSAY; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DENDRITE; EMBEDDING; EMPIRICISM; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GLIA; GLIA CELL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPATHOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; PHYSICIAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TISSUE SECTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0037093791     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(02)01330-6     Document Type: Letter

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