Knowing what counts: Unbiased stereology in the non-human primate brain

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 27, 2009, Pages

  Burke, Mark ^a   Zangenehpour, Shahin ^a   Mouton, Peter R ^b   Ptito, Maurice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Stereology Resource Center   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antigen preserve; Brain bank; Cryostat; Issue 27; Neuroscience; Non human primate; Stereology; Systematic sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055113718     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/1262     Document Type: Article

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