Visualization of synaptic specializations in live C. elegans with synaptic vesicle protein-GFP fusions

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-40

  Nonet, Michael L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AP180; Fluorescence microscopy; Green fluorescent protein; In vivo imaging; Synapse; Synaptic vesicle; Synaptobrevin; Synaptogyrin

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; SYNAPTOBREVIN; SYNAPTOTAGMIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; R-SNARE PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 0032769032     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(99)00031-X     Document Type: Article

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