Monitoring of neuronal and glial calcium activity using a novel direct-contact probe

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 83-89

  Dubaj, V ^a   Mazzolini, A ^b   Wood, A ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Calcium activity; Direct contact probe; Fluorescence activity; In vivo biological monitoring; Optic fibre bundle

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; NEURONS; PROBES;

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CALCIUM ACTIVITY; CONTACT PROBES; DIRECT CONTACT; DIRECT CONTACT PROBE; FIBRE BUNDLE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVITY; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; OPTIC FIBER BUNDLE; OPTIC-FIBER;

CALCIUM;

CALCIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; GLIA; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LASER MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PROBE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

RATTUS;

EID: 34247241037     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2007.01761.x     Document Type: Article

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