Design-based stereological estimation of the total number of cardiac myocytes in histological sections

Basic Research in Cardiology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 311-319

  Brüel, Annemarie ^a   Nyengaard, Jens R ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cardiac myocytes; Hypertrophy; Morphometry; Proliferation; Sterology

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 4;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; HISTOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; RAT; STEREOLOGY; TISSUE SLICE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 22144470800     PISSN: 03008428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00395-005-0524-9     Document Type: Article

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