Counting and Measuring Ultrastructural Features of Biological Samples

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 593-605

  West, Mark J ^a  

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Indexed keywords

AMYLOIDOSIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; DENSITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; STEREOLOGY; STRATUM RADIATUM; SYNAPSE; TISSUE FIXATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAMICROTOMY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; BIOMETRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROTOMY; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; METHODOLOGY;

BIOMETRY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTOMY;

EID: 84879735348     PISSN: 19403402     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.top071886     Document Type: Article

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