The use of digital technology to asses the severity of the Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis (EAE) spinal cord lesion

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 40, Issue , 2004, Pages 419-423

  Mohamed, A ^a   Tarhuni, H ^a   Dufan, T ^a   Benghuzzi, H ^b   Tucci, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b Jackson Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflammation; Multiple sclerosis; Myelin; Rat

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DISEASES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TISSUE;

BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES; DISEASED ANIMALS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPINAL CORD DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; FEMALE; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPHOCYTES; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 2342634246     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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