A reinvestigation of murine cranial suture biology: Microcomputed tomography versus histologic technique

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 626-634

  Stadler III, James A ^a   Cortes, Wilberto ^a   Zhang, Lin Ling ^a   Hanger, Christopher C ^a   Gosain, Arun K ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEPHALOMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL SUTURE; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

ANIMALS; CEPHALOMETRY; CRANIAL SUTURES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; STAINING AND LABELING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748274715     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000232979.78132.b2     Document Type: Article

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