Application of immunohistochemistry in stereology for quantitative assessment of neural cell populations illustrated in the göttingen minipig

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Hou, Jack ^a   Riise, Jesper ^a   Pakkenberg, Bente ^a  

^a Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; GLIA CELL; GLIAL TO NEURON RATIO; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MINIPIG; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING; STEREOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; COLORING AGENTS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOCORTEX; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE;

EID: 84865055699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043556     Document Type: Article

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