Differential tissue shrinkage and compression in the z-axis: Implications for optical disector counting in vibratome-, plastic- and cryosections

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-59

  Gardella, Dean ^a   Hatton, William J ^a   Rind, Howard B ^a   Rosen, Glenn D ^b   Von Bartheld, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Celloidin; Compression; Optical disector; Particle counting; Sampling; Stereology; Vibratome section

Indexed keywords

METHACRYLIC ACID; PARAFFIN; PYROXYLIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBEDDING; FROZEN SECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DISSECTOR COUNTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SECTION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; GUINEA PIG; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MICROTOMY; NERVE CELL; OPTICS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TISSUE FIXATION; ULTRAMICROTOMY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CHICKENS; CRYOULTRAMICROTOMY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GUINEA PIGS; MICE; MICROSCOPY; MICROTOMY; NEURONS; OPTICS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE EMBEDDING; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 0037473243     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(02)00363-1     Document Type: Article

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