Automated quantification of dendritic spine density and spine head diameter in medium spiny neurons of the nucleus accumbens

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 213, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 149-157

  Shen, Haowei ^a   Sesack, Susan R ^b   Toda, Shigenobu ^a   Kalivas, Peter W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrite; Dendritic spine; Diolistic labeling; Nucleus accumbens; Spiny neuron

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; DENDRITIC SPINES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 50249109475     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-008-0184-2     Document Type: Article

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