Calcium imaging in the living brain: prospects for molecular medicine

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 389-399

  Rochefort, Nathalie L ^a   Jia, Hongbo ^a   Konnerth, Arthur ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; CALCIUM; DEXTRAN; GABAPENTIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHENYTOIN; THIOFLAVINE; VALPROIC ACID;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL FUNCTION; DENDRITIC SPINE; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUOROMETRY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; ISCHEMIA; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SENSORY STIMULATION; STROKE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DENDRITES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 50549097097     PISSN: 14714914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2008.07.005     Document Type: Review

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