Developmental increase of total cell numbers in the murine cerebellum

Cerebellum

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 315-320

  Surchev, Lachezar ^a,b   Nazwar, Tommy A ^a   Weisheit, Gunnar ^a   Schilling, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Cell counting; Cerebellum; Development

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CALCULATION; CELL COUNT; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GROWTH CURVE; HISTOGENESIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CEREBELLUM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 36549068758     PISSN: 14734222     EISSN: 14734230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14734220601169699     Document Type: Article

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