Use of flow cytometry for high-throughput cell population estimates in fixed brain tissue

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn , Issue JUNE 2012, 2012, Pages

  Young, Nicole A ^a   Flaherty, David K ^b   Airey, David C ^b   Varlan, Peter ^a   Aworunse, Feyi ^a   Kaas, Jon H ^a   Collins, Christine E ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell counting; Flow cytometry; Neubauer chamber; Nuclear suspension

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLOW FRACTIONATOR; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; STEREOLOGY; STRIATE CORTEX;

EID: 84863974440     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2012.00027     Document Type: Article

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