Sulforhodamine 101 as a specific marker of astroglia in the neocortex in vivo

Nature Methods

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-37

  Nimmerjahn, Axel ^a   Kirchhoff, Frank ^b   Kerr, Jason N D ^a   Helmchen, Fritjof ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALCIUM; FLUORESCENT DYE; RHODAMINE; SULFORHODAMINE 101;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; C57BL MOUSE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL JUNCTION; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NEOCORTEX; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; STAINING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAP JUNCTIONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; NEOCORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RHODAMINES; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 18744409106     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth706     Document Type: Article

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