Nerve cell loss in the thalamic mediodorsal nucleus in Huntington's disease. II. Optimization of a stereological estimation procedure

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 623-628

  Schmitz, Christoph ^a   Rüb, Udo ^b,c   Korr, Hubert ^a   Heinsen, Helmut ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Counting methods; Disector; Morphometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL TYPE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOLOGY; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS;

ADULT; AGED; CELL COUNT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0344416985     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010051038     Document Type: Article

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