Live-cell imaging of slow axonal transport in cultured neurons

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 2003, Issue 71, 2003, Pages 305-323

  Brown, Anthony ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0346160996     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(03)01014-8     Document Type: Review

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