Quantifying optic nerve axons in a cat glaucoma model by a semiautomated targeted counting method

Molecular Vision

Volumn 20, Issue , 2014, Pages 376-385

  Teixeira, Leandro B C ^a,b   Buhr, Kevin A ^b   Bowie, Owen ^b   Duke, Felicia D ^a,b   Nork, T Michael ^b   Dubielzig, Richard R ^a,b   McLellan, Gillian J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLAUCOMA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMI AUTOMATED TARGETED COUNTING METHOD;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; AXONS; CATS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84897427332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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