In vivo imaging of vesicle motion and release at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1117-1125

  Levitan, Edwin S ^a   Lanni, Frederick ^b   Shakiryanova, Dinara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CELL VACUOLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DROSOPHILA; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; LARVA; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POST TETANIC POTENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DROSOPHILA; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LARVA; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEUROPEPTIDES; SECRETORY VESICLES; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 34250185006     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.142     Document Type: Article

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