Long-term live imaging of neuronal circuits in organotypic hippocampal slice cultures

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1223-1226

  Gogolla, Nadine ^a   Galimberti, Ivan ^a   DePaola, Vincenzo ^b   Caroni, Pico ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; NEURONS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 34347236568     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.169     Document Type: Article

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