Multiple neuroanatomical tract-tracing using fluorescent Alexa Fluor conjugates of cholera toxin subunit B in rats

Nature Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1157-1166

  Conte, William L ^a   Kamishina, Hiroaki ^b   Reep, Roger L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONJUGATE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHOLERA TOXIN; CRANIOTOMY; FLUORESCENT DYES; HISTOCYTOLOGICAL PREPARATION TECHNIQUES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RATS;

ALEXA; ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 68449091876     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2009.93     Document Type: Article

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