Genetically-directed, cell type-specific sparse labeling for the analysis of neuronal morphology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Rotolo, Thomas ^a   Smallwood, Philip M ^a   Williams, John ^a   Nathans, Jeremy ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL LABELING; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GLIA CELL; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROCESS TECHNOLOGY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CLONE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

CATECHOLAMINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN L; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CLONE CELLS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 58149343632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004099     Document Type: Article

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