Two-laser dual-immunofluorescence confocal laser scanning microscopy using Cy2- and Cy5-conjugated secondary antibodies: Unequivocal detection of co-localization of neuronal markers

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 149-159

  Wouterlood, Floris G ^a   Van Denderen, Jacqueline C M ^a   Blijleven, Nico ^a   Van Minnen, Jan ^a   Härtig, Wolfgang ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calretinin; Carbocyanine dyes; CLSM; Dual immunofluorescence; Entorhinal cortex; Fluorophores

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CALRETININ; CARBOCYANINE; FLUORESCENT DYE; PARVALBUMIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTERNEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; XANTHENES;

EID: 0031867883     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-299X(97)00038-X     Document Type: Article

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