Selective in vivo fluorescence labelling of cholinergic neurons containing p75(NTR) in the rat basal forebrain

Brain Research

Volumn 808, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 155-165

  Härtig, Wolfgang ^a   Seeger, Johannes ^a   Naumann, Thomas ^b   Brauer, Kurt ^a   Brückner, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbocyanine; Choline acetyltransferase; In vivo labelling; p75(NTR) Basal forebrain; Rat

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DIGOXIGENIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR; SAPONIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTERNALIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AXONAL TRANSPORT; CARBOCYANINES; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 0032547882     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00792-6     Document Type: Article

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