Recent stereological methods for cell biology: a brief survey.
With the advent of many new tools over the last five years, stereology has become simpler, assumption-free, and more efficient but, at the same time, new terms and concepts have proliferated, which risk overwhelming potential users. The present review is intended to meet the urgent need for a structured classification and evaluation of the newest stereological methods. Being fairly comprehensive, the exposition is necessarily succinct: the reader is referred to selected references for the necessary details and examples.
Department of Anatomy, University of Berne, Switzerland.
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Cruz-Orive
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Weibel
D000818:Animals; D002477:Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D003584:Cytological Techniques; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000166:cytology; D008853:Microscopy / Q000379:methods