An unbiased stereological study on subpopulations of rat liver macrophages and on their numerical relation with the hepatocytes and stellate cells

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 214, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 744-751

  Santos, Marta ^a,b   Marcos, Ricardo ^a,b   Santos, Nádia ^a   Malhão, Fernanda ^a   Monteiro, Rogério A F ^a   Rocha, Eduardo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Disector; ED1; ED2; Kupffer cells; Liver; Optical fractionator

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER CELL; LIVER MACROPHAGE; MACROPHAGE; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFERENCE VALUE; STELLATE CELL; STEREOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL SEPARATION; HEPATOCYTES; KUPFFER CELLS; LIVER; MACROPHAGES; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 65449128453     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2009.01055.x     Document Type: Article

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