Stereological measurement of rat's seminiferous tubule

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 2643-2646

  Liu, Zhe ^a   Chang, Qing ^a   Xu, Zeng Lu ^a   Zhang, Zheng Guo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Histology; Image processing, computer assisted; Rats; Seminiferous tubules

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELPHI STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEOMETRY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PLANIMETRY; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; STEREOMETRY; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; TESTIS;

EID: 73449110556     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2009.21.022     Document Type: Article

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