An automated segmentation methodology for quantifying immunoreactive puncta number and fluorescence intensity in tissue sections

Brain Research

Volumn 1240, Issue , 2008, Pages 62-72

  Fish, Kenneth N ^a   Sweet, Robert A ^a,b   Deo, Anthony J ^a   Lewis, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescent immunohistochemistry; Immunoreactive puncta; Quantitative fluorescence microscopy; Segmentation; Synaptic structure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONKEY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYNAPSE; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 54949108524     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.08.060     Document Type: Article

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