Two-photon imaging of astrocytic Ca2+ signaling and the microvasculature in experimental mice models of Alzheimer's disease

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1097, Issue , 2007, Pages 40-50

  Takano, Takahiro ^a   Han, Xiaoning ^a   Deane, Rashid ^b   Zlokovic, Berislav ^b   Nedergaard, Maiken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Astrocytes; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BRAIN CORTEX; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DAMAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HYPEREMIA; LASER MICROSCOPY; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULATURE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN; CAPILLARY; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CAPILLARIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICROCIRCULATION;

EID: 34247580868     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1379.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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