Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Towards more readily comprehensible procedures in disector stereology

  • Published:
Journal of Neurocytology

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

References

  • AvendaÑo, C. & Dykes, R. W. (1996) Quantitative analysis of anatomical changes in the cuneate nucleus following forelimb denervation: a stereological morphometric study in adult cats. Journal of Comparative Neurology 370, 491–500.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • BrÆndgaard, H., Evans, S. M., Howard, C. V. & Gundersen, H. J. G. (1990) The total number of neurons in the human neocortex unbiasedly estimated using optical disectors. Journal of Microscopy 157, 285–304.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Coggeshall, R. E. & Lekan, H. A. (1996) Methods for determining numbers of cells and synapses: a case for more uniform standards of review. Journal of Comparative Neurology 364, 6–15.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Cruz-Orive, L. M. (1993) Systematic sampling in stereology. Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, Proceedings 49th Session, Florence 1993 55, 451–68.

    Google Scholar 

  • Geinisman, Y., Gundersen, H. J. G, Van Der Zee, E. & West, M. J. (1996) Unbiased stereological estimation of the total number of synapses in a brain region. Journal of Neurocytology 25, 805–19.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Ma, S. Y., Roytta, M., Rinne, J. O., Collan, Y. & Rinne, U. K. (1995) Single section and disector counts in evaluating neuronal loss from the substantia nigra in patients with Parkinson's disease. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology 21, 341–3.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Oorschot, D. E. (1996) Total number of neurons in the neostriatal, pallidal, subthalamic, and substantia nigral nuclei of the rat basal ganglia: a stereological study using the Cavalieri and optical disector methods. Journal of Comparative Neurology 366, 580–99.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Pakkenberg, B. & Gundersen, H. J. G. (1988) Total number of neurons and glial cells in human brain nuclei estimated by the disector and the fractionator. Journal of Microscopy 150, 1–20.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Popken, G. J. & Farel, P. B. (1996) Reliability and validity of the physical disector method for estimating neuron number. Journal of Neurobiology 31, 166–74.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Roberts, N., Garden, A. S., Cruz-Orive, L. M., Whitehouse, G. H. & Edwards, R. H. T. (1994) Estimation of fetal volume bymagnetic resonance imaging and stereology. British Journal of Radiology 61, 1067–77.

    Google Scholar 

  • Saper, C. B. (1996) Any way you cut it: a new journal policy for the use of unbiased counting methods. Journal of Comparative Neurology 364, 5.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Suarez, C., Diaz, C., Tolivia, J., Alvarez, J. C., Gonzales Del Rey, C., & Navarro, A. (1997) Morphometric analysis of the human vestibular nuclei. Anatomical Record 247, 271–88.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • West, M. J. (1993) New stereological methods for counting neurons. Neurobiology of Aging 14, 275–85.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • West, M. J. (1994) Advances in the study of age-related neuron loss. The Neurosciences 6, 403–11.

    Google Scholar 

  • West, M. J. & Gundersen, H. J. G. (1990) Unbiased stereological estimation of the number of neurons in the human hippocampus. Journal of Comparative Neurology 296, 1–22.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • West, M. J., Østergaard, K., Andreassen, O. A. & Finsen, B. (1996) Estimation of the number of somatostatin neurons in the striatum: an in situ hybridization study using the optical fractionator method. Journal of Comparative Neurology 370, 1–22.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institut fur Anatomie der RWTH Aachen, PauwelsstraßeWendlingweg 2, D-52057, Aachen, Germany

    C. Schmitz

Authors
  1. C. Schmitz
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Schmitz, C. Towards more readily comprehensible procedures in disector stereology. J Neurocytol 26, 707–710 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018506113256

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018506113256

Search

Navigation