Validation and use of a computer-assisted counting procedure to quantify BrdU-labeled proliferating cells in the early postnatal mouse hippocampus

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 173-177

  Tatapudy, Sonali ^a   Bruening, Sandra ^a   Gleason, Georgia ^a   Toth, Miklos ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

automatic cell counting; Brain development; Dentate gyrus; Hippocampus; Proliferation; Stereology

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTERS; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; S PHASE; SOFTWARE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 46249127576     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.04.016     Document Type: Article

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