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The non-statistical nature of biological structure and its implications in sampling for stereology of liver tissue

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Geometrical Probability and Biological Structures: Buffon’s 200th Anniversary

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics ((LNBM,volume 23))

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One of the tissues most investigated by stereological methods is liver tissue (see review article (3)). This predeliction for liver is partly explained by the fact that it has been regarded — and treated — as a tissue in which the structural elements, cells and organelles are presumed to be randomly distributed and oriented. Consequently, considerations concerning cellular — or subcellular — polarity, anisotrophy, etc., which strongly influence the sampling procedure, were largely disregarded.

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  1. Elias, H. and J.S. Sherrick (1969). Morphology of the Liver. Academic Press, New York and London.

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  1. Norsk Hydro’s Institute for Cancer Research, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, Oslo 1, Norway

    Albrecht Reith

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  1. Department of Statistics Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, P.O. Box 4, 2600, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia

    Roger E. Miles

  2. Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Ecole des Mines de Paris, 35 rue St. Honoré, 77305, Fontainebleau, France

    Jean Serra

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Reith, A. (1978). The non-statistical nature of biological structure and its implications in sampling for stereology of liver tissue. In: Miles, R.E., Serra, J. (eds) Geometrical Probability and Biological Structures: Buffon’s 200th Anniversary. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93089-8_15

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