Unbiased cell quantification reveals a continued increase in the number of neocortical neurones during early post-natal development in mice

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1749-1764

  Lyck, Lise ^a   Krøigård, Thomas ^a   Finsen, Bente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Corticogenesis; Neuronal nuclear antigen; Oligodendroglia; Optical fractionator

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MATURATION; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIA CELL; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOMETRY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; NEOCORTEX; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34848844024     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05763.x     Document Type: Article

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