Quantifying presynaptic terminals at the light microscope level in intact and deafferented central nervous structures

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 165-172

  Gerrikagoitia, Inmaculada ^a   García Del Caño, Gontzal ^a   Martínez Millán, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cholinergic boutons; Immunohistochemistry; Quantification; Superior colliculus; Tissue shrinkage

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; ENUCLEATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NERVE ENDING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DENERVATION; EYE ENUCLEATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; UP-REGULATION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0036310614     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-299X(02)00142-3     Document Type: Article

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