Two-Photon Imaging of Brain Pericytes In Vivo Using Dextran-Conjugated Dyes

GLIA

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-100

  Hirase, Hajime ^a   Creso, Judith ^a   Singleton, Malaika ^a   Barthó, Peter ^a   Buzsáki, György ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium Green; Cerebral blood flow; Perivascular cells

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOREGULATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DEXTRANS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PERICYTES;

EID: 1842813459     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/glia.10295     Document Type: Article

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