Morphometry of the Respiratory Tract: Avoiding the Sampling, Size, Orientation, and Reference Traps

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-48

  Hyde, Dallas M ^a   Tyler, Nancy K ^a   Plopper, Charles G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

conducting airways; dissector; fractionator; in vivo imaging; statistical variability; Stereology

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANATOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; LEYDIG CELL; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG VOLUME; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SAMPLING; STEREOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SAMPLE SIZE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33847326192     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01926230601059977     Document Type: Article

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