A method to quantify glial fibrillary acidic protein immunoreactivity on the suprachiasmatic nucleus

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 181-187

  Vilaplana, J ^a   Lavialle, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Image analysis; Immunohistochemistry; Rat; Suprachiasmatic

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESOCRICETUS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0032749628     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(99)00016-3     Document Type: Article

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