Quantitative Histomorphometry of the Healthy Peritoneum

Quantitative Histomorphometry of the Healthy Peritoneum

The peritoneum plays an essential role in preventing abdominal frictions and adhesions and can be utilized as a dialysis membrane. Its physiological ultrastructure, however, has not yet been studied systematically. 106 standardized peritoneal and 69 omental specimens were obtained from 107 patients (0.1-60 years) undergoing surgery for disease not affecting the peritoneum for automated quantita...

Automated Quantitative Histomorphometry in Osteoarthritis

In the development process of drugs for different diseases the pharmaceutical companies spend a lot of resources in the preclinical phase when researching for compounds as drug candidates. In the matter of osteoarthritis (degenerative joint disease), part of the research includes test on mice which spontaneously develop the disease. It is difficult to determine the level of osteoarthritis (OA) ...

Comparison of two bone trephine instruments used for quantitative histomorphometry.

Transilial bone samples were obtained at necropsy using trephine instruments with internal diameters of 2 mm and 7 mm. Undecalcified histological sections were prepared and two structural histomorphometric variables (percentage of trabecular bone volume and surface density of bone) were estimated by a Quantimet 720 image analyser. The differences between the variables measured from the two adja...

The Peritoneum

Biopsy of the peritoneum.