A semiautomated targeted sampling method to assess optic nerve axonal loss in a rat model of glaucoma

Nature Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1642-1651

  Marina, Nephtali ^a,b   Bull, Natalie D ^a   Martin, Keith R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL DEATH; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLAUCOMA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE FIBER; OPTIC NERVE LESION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLAUCOMA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; OPTIC NERVE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77957569129     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2010.128     Document Type: Article

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