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- Received November 4, 2004
- Revision received January 19, 2005
- Accepted January 21, 2005
- First published March 9, 2005.
- Version of record published March 9, 2005.
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- Received November 4, 2004.
- Revision received January 19, 2005.
- Accepted January 21, 2005.
This work was supported by Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Primeiros Projetos Grant E26/170.647/2004 (S.H.-H.), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico Edital Universal Grant 471623/2003-2 (R.L.), and Pronex Grant 171.213/2003 (S.H.-H., R.L.). We are grateful to Adiel do Nascimento for animal care, Elizabeth de Moraes for technical help, Vivaldo Moura-Neto and Jean-Christophe Houzel for insightful discussions, Cristovam Picanço-Diniz for the epitope-retrieval protocol, and Carlos Mandarim de Lacerda for pointing out the similarities between our method and the optical fractionator. Animals were maintained and manipulated according to Brazilian laws and international regulations, and the project was authorized by the Committee on Animal Care of the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Correspondence should be addressed to either Suzana Herculano-Houzel or Roberto Lent, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Anatomia, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Bloco F, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 21941-590, E-mails: suzanahh{at}ism.com.br and rlent{at}anato.ufrj.br.
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