Automated immunohistochemical method to quantify neuronal density in brain sections: Application to neuronal loss after status epilepticus

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 225, Issue , 2014, Pages 32-41

  Woeffler Maucler, Caroline ^a,b,c   Beghin, Anne ^a,d   Ressnikoff, Denis ^a,d   Bezin, Laurent ^a,b,c,e   Marinesco, Stéphane ^a,b,c,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c LYON NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^d Centre Commun de Quantimétrie   (France)

^e Epilepsy Institute Institut Des ÉpilepsiEs IDÉE   (France)

^f Plate forme technologique AniRA Neurochem   (France)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Excitotoxicity; ImageJ; Microscopy; Neuroanatomy; Quantification

Indexed keywords

NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DENTATE HILUS; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NERVE CELL LESION; NEURONAL DENSITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; THALAMUS; TISSUE SECTION;

EPILEPSY; EXCITOTOXICITY; IMAGEJ; MICROSCOPY; NEUROANATOMY; QUANTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDOLES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 84893676758     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.01.009     Document Type: Article

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