Stereology and the Placenta: Where's the Point? - A Review

Placenta

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL., 2006, Pages 17-25

  Mayhew, T M ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Immunogold cytochemistry; Microscopical sections; Placenta; Random sampling; Stereology; Transport; Trophoblast; Vascular remodelling

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANGIOGENESIS; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CHORION VILLUS; DIFFUSION; EMBRYO; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOM SAMPLE; REVIEW; STEREOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TISSUE SECTION; TROPHOBLAST; VOLUMETRY;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; CHORIONIC VILLI; FEMALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 33645912611     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2005.11.006     Document Type: Review

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