A robust, efficient and flexible method for staining myelinated axons in blocks of brain tissue

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 207-214

  Wahlsten, Douglas ^a   Colbourne, Frederick ^a   Pleus, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Intertox Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Corpus callosum; Measurement error; Morphometry; Mouse; Rat; Reliability; Throughput analysis

Indexed keywords

GOLD CHLORIDE; MYELIN;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; MYELINATED NERVE; NISSL SUBSTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RELIABILITY; STAINING;

EID: 0037445483     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(02)00359-X     Document Type: Article

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