{"title":"A quantitative immunocytochemical approach to the analysis of type I cells in the cat carotid body.","authors":"J Major, B Dinger, L J Stensaas, Z Z Wang","doi":"10.1159/000014611","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Digital image analysis of immunostained semithin plastic sections indicates that experimentally induced changes in levels of transmitter-related reaction product in single cells fails to support the concept of clearly defined subsets of type I cells in the carotid body. This objective approach to the quantitation of staining product on a cell-by-cell basis appears to indicate that the observed changes are related to global shifts in the expression of a given neuronal marker throughout a single population of highly labile chemoreceptor elements.</p>","PeriodicalId":79565,"journal":{"name":"Biological signals and receptors","volume":"8 6","pages":"375-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000014611","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Biological signals and receptors","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000014611","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Digital image analysis of immunostained semithin plastic sections indicates that experimentally induced changes in levels of transmitter-related reaction product in single cells fails to support the concept of clearly defined subsets of type I cells in the carotid body. This objective approach to the quantitation of staining product on a cell-by-cell basis appears to indicate that the observed changes are related to global shifts in the expression of a given neuronal marker throughout a single population of highly labile chemoreceptor elements.