Assessment of goblet cell orifice distribution across the rabbit bulbar conjunctiva based on numerical density and nearest neighbors analysis

Current Eye Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 237-251

  Doughty, Michael J ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bulbar conjunctiva; Goblet cell orifices; Nearest neighbors analysis; Rabbit; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

GLUTARALDEHYDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONJUNCTIVA; GOBLET CELL; MICROVILLUS; NONHUMAN; PERIMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CONJUNCTIVA; FEMALE; GOBLET CELLS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; RABBITS; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84873930257     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713683.2012.754901     Document Type: Article

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