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Term:
ex vivo light microscopy with histochemistry and digital image analysis
A method performed outside the living body, for instance, on isolated cells or tissues, which incorporates the use of light microscopy and histochemistry to produce picture files stored as data expressed in a discrete numerical form, followed by use of computer software to evaluate these resulting microscopic images.