A novel method for evaluation of capillarity in human skeletal muscles from confocal 3D images

Microvascular Research

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 231-238

  Janáček, Jiří ^a   Cvetko, Erika ^b   Kubínová, Lucie ^a   Travnik, Ludvik ^c   Eržen, Ida ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

3D; Capillaries; Confocal microscopy; Human; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN ANTIBODY; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; FLUORESCENT DYE; ULEX EUROPAEUS AGGLUTININ;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MASSETER MUSCLE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE CAPILLARY; MUSCLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE SECTION; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MASSETER MUSCLE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PLANT LECTINS; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; STAINING AND LABELING;

ULEX EUROPAEUS;

EID: 79651473320     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: 10959319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2010.11.012     Document Type: Article

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