High-content analysis in neuroscience

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 779-788

  Dragunow, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; CELL COUNT; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GAP JUNCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROSCIENCE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

AUTOMATION; CELL SHAPE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; MICROSCOPY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEURONS; NEUROSCIENCES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 52449130309     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2492     Document Type: Note

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