title: Topographical and quantitative post mortem assessment of the rat skin mast cells.
abstract: Rat skin mast cell (MC) number and density change due to the postmortem storage of the material at 6-8 degrees C during a 19-day period. Both the number and the density of the MC in the 200 microm thick subepidermal layer decreased with the square of the time (p > or = 0.99). The count and the density may be used interchangeably in topographic studies of the rat MC.
authors.affiliation: Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical University, Lódź, Poland.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Brzeziński
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Godlewski
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002452:Cell Count; D004396:Coloring Agents; D008297:Male; D008407:Mast Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D011180:Postmortem Changes; D051381:Rats; D011917:Rats, Inbred Lew; D012867:Skin / Q000166:cytology*
chemical_list: D004396:Coloring Agents