EFFICIENT ESTIMATION OF CELL-VOLUME AND NUMBER USING THE NUCLEATOR AND THE DISECTOR

被引:101
作者
MOLLER, A [1 ]
STRANGE, P [1 ]
GUNDERSEN, HJG [1 ]
机构
[1] AARHUS UNIV,STEREOL RES LAB,DK-8000 AARHUS,DENMARK
来源
JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY-OXFORD | 1990年 / 159卷
关键词
Disector; neuron sizes; neurons; neuroscience; nuclear size; nuclear‐cytoplasmic ratio; nucleator; particle sizes; particles; point‐sampled intercepts; stereology; volume;
D O I
10.1111/j.1365-2818.1990.tb03019.x
中图分类号
TH742 [显微镜];
学科分类号
摘要
The nucleator allows the unbiased estimation of absolute structural quantities of suitably sampled, arbitrarily shaped structures from observations made from arbitrary points using isotropic probes. A number of time‐saving modifications using the nucleator and the consequences of the modifications are studied in terms of their bias and efficiency. Using rat neocortex as an example, a description is given of how to estimate mean neuronal volume and total neuron number efficiently from only a few pairs of plastic sections with a thickness of about 3 μm. 1990 Blackwell Science Ltd
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