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. 2013 Aug 14;33(33):13375–13387. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5286-12.2013

Table 1.

Parameters for stereological cell counts in the cortex as well as the coefficient of error and the average cell count per sampling site for each marker and region

Counting frame Sampling grid size Coefficient of error (Gundersen), m = 1 Average cell counts/sampling site
CTX
    PV 100 × 100 × 5 μm 700 × 700 μm 0.14 0.47
    RLN 100 × 100 × 5 μm 700 × 700 μm 0.16 0.64
    SST 100 × 100 × 5 μm 700 × 700 μm 0.19 0.42
    VIP 100 × 100 × 5 μm 700 × 700 μm 0.27 0.11
    GAD67 EGFP 100 × 100 × 5 μm 700 × 700 μm 0.08 1.87
    GABA 100 × 100 × 5 μm 700 × 700 μm 0.14 1.22
    Dlx-2 100 × 100 × 5 μm 700 × 700 μm 0.14 0.87
    BrdU 100 × 100 × 5 μm 700 × 700 μm 0.17 0.30
Hp PV 284 × 182 × 5 μm 452 × 356 μm 0.14 0.67

CTX, cortex; Hp, hippocampus.