The Saanen goat is known as the greatest milk producer among small ruminat breeds. However, its morphometric features still remain unclear. Therefore, present work aimed to investigate functional anatomy of upper and lower jaws well volumetric properties male female for clinical applications. heads 20 adult animals (10 males 10 females) were included. Totally, 22 parameters measured on three di...

Stereological procedures to quantify mean nuclear volume are commonly used to differentiate cancerous from normal tissue. Automatic quantification of these parameters requires segmentation, which is complicated by the variability in tissue staining and nuclei size. One solution to deal with such alterations in a robust fashion is to use an ensemble of segmentation methods. The goal of this work...

sleep deprivation (sd) is known to result in a range of neurological, cognitive and physical consequences in chronically-afflicted subjects. the respiratory nuclei of brain-stem tend to play a pivotal part in the regulating sleep function, hence hypothesized to be affected in various types of sleep-related dysfunctions. the purpose of this methodological report is to explain the techniques of r...

Preservation of original tissue dimensions is an essential prerequisite for morphometric studies. Shrinkage occurring during tissue processing for histology may severely influence the appearance of structures seen under the microscope and stereological calculations. Therefore, shrinkage has to be avoided so that estimates obtained by application of unbiased stereology are indeed unbiased. The p...

Stereology has been earlier defined by Wiebel (1970) to be: “a body of mathematical methods relating to three dimensional parameters defining the structure from two dimensional measurements obtainable on sections of the structure.” SHTEREOM I is a simple windows-based software for stereological estimation. In this first part, we describe the implementation of the number and volume estimation to...

We employed 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) labeling to identify in vivo changes in the cell cycle patterns of the rat midbrain during the major period of midbrain organogenesis, gestational days (gd) 11 to 16. We also used quantitative stereology to determine changes in absolute cell numbers during these gestational time points. Between gd 12 and 16, the length of S-phase did not change signifi...