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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropharmacology. 2021 Oct 2;200:108817. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2021.108817

Table 2.

Spaceballs stereological parameters

Dorsal Striatum Nucleus Accumbens
Sections
 Number of sections 4 3
 Type 40 μm frozen 40 μm frozen
 Actual thickness (mean ± SEM) 30.3 ± 0.9 μm 30.9 ± 1.0 μm
 Sampling every 6th section every 6th section
Spaceballs probe
 Grid size 275 μm X 275 μm 275 μm X 275 μm
 Probe shape hemisphere hemisphere
 Radius of spherical probe 7 μm 6 μm
 Coefficient of error (Gundersen), m=1 0.04 - 0.06 0.04 - 0.05