Automatic quantitation of vacuolar lesions in the brain of mice infected with transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 124, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 197-202

  Bencsik, Anna ^a   Philippe, Sandrine ^a   Vial, Ludovic ^a   Calavas, Didier ^a   Baron, Thierry ^a  

^a Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Mice; Quantitation; Strain typing; TSE; Vacuoles

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIRUS TYPING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PRION DISEASES; VACUOLES;

EID: 12344261667     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2004.11.027     Document Type: Article

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