Efficacy of the fluorescent dyes fast blue, fluoro-gold, and diamidino yellow for retrograde tracing to dorsal root ganglia after subcutaneous injection

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-16

  Puigdellívol Sánchez, Anna ^a   Prats Galino, Alberto ^a   Ruano Gil, Domingo ^a   Molander, Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adult rat; Afferent pathways; Axonal transport; Skin; Spinal ganglia

Indexed keywords

DIAMIDINO YELLOW; FAST BLUE; FLUORESCENT DYE; FLUOROGOLD; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN; SKIN NERVE; SPINAL GANGLION; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 18544391422     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(98)00137-X     Document Type: Article

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