Three-dimensional reconstruction and quantitative morphometric analysis of pyramidal and giant neurons of the rat dorsal cochlear nucleus

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 218, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1279-1292

  Kecskes, Szilvia ^a   Koszeghy, Áron ^a   Szücs, Géza ^a   Rusznák, Zoltán ^a,b   Matesz, Clara ^a   Birinyi, András ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Fluorescent labeling; Morphology; Multivariate statistics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DENDRITIC CELL; DORSAL COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; FEMALE; GIANT NERVE CELL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SOMATIC CELL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LYSINE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS;

EID: 84883165828     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-012-0457-7     Document Type: Article

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