Rhodamine backfilling and confocal microscopy as a tool for the unambiguous identification of neuronal cell types: A study of the neurones of the rat cochlear nucleus

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 529-538

  Pocsai, Krisztina ^a   Pál, Balázs ^a   Pap, Pál ^a   Bakondi, Gábor ^a   Kosztka, Lívia ^a   Rusznák, Zoltán ^a   Szucs, Géza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cochlear nucleus; Confocal microscopy; Fluorescence microscopy; Purkinje like cell; Retrograde labelling; Rhodamine

Indexed keywords

RHODAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CEREBELLUM; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OCTOPUS NEURON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RETROGRADE LABELING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL ENLARGEMENT; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RHODAMINES;

EID: 33846461750     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2006.11.009     Document Type: Article

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