Watching a synapse grow: Noninvasive confocal imaging of synaptic growth in Drosophila

Neuron

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 719-729

  Zito, Karen ^a,b   Parnas, Dorit ^a,b   Fetter, Richard D ^a,b   Isacoff, Ehud Y ^b   Goodman, Corey S ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FASCICLIN II; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; DROSOPHILA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

EID: 0033118555     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80731-X     Document Type: Article

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