Functional imaging of single synapses in brain slices

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 733-736

  Oertner, Thomas G ^a  

^a Watson School of Biological Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE SLICE; TWO PHOTON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0036848473     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/eph8702482     Document Type: Article

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