Vital imaging and ultrastructural analysis of individual axon terminals labeled by iontophoretic application of lipophilic dye

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-20

  Gan, Wen Biao ^a   Bishop, Derron L ^a   Turney, Stephen G ^a   Lichtman, Jeff W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbocyanine dye; Motor axon; Photoconversion; Synapse; Synapse elimination; Synapse ultrastructure; Synaptic competition; Vital imaging; Vital labeling

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGING; LIPOPHILICITY; MICROIONTOPHORESIS; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CARBOCYANINES; COLORING AGENTS; IONTOPHORESIS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS;

EID: 0032723168     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(99)00096-5     Document Type: Article

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