Live-cell imaging of dendritic spines by STED microscopy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 48, 2008, Pages 18982-18987

  Nägerl, U Valentin ^a   Willig, Katrin I ^b   Hein, Birka ^b   Hell, Stefan W ^b   Bonhoeffer, Tobias ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

LTP; Nanoscopy; Spine neck diameter; Superresolution; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL AGING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DENDRITIC CELL; DENDRITIC SPINE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE;

ANIMALS; DENDRITIC SPINES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS;

EID: 57749107742     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810028105     Document Type: Article

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