Use of fluorescence in a modified disector method to estimate the number of myocytes in cardiac tissue

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 252-258

  Novaes, Rômulo Dias ^a   Penitente, Arlete Rita ^a   Talvani, André ^b   Natali, Antônio José ^a   Neves, Clóvis Andrade ^a   Maldonado, Izabel Regina dos Santos Costa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Cell separation; Flow cytometry; Myocytes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; INOCULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RAT; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATID INFECTION; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEART VENTRICLES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84860342735     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: 16784170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0066-782X2012005000014     Document Type: Article

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