Imaging neuronal networks in behaving animals

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 832-838

  Fetcho, Joseph R ^a   O'Malley, Donald M ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECOND MESSENGER; SYNAPSE; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0031466771     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(97)80143-2     Document Type: Article

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