Chapter 2 Live-Cell Imaging in the Study of Neurodegeneration

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 276, Issue C, 2009, Pages 49-103

  Bakota, Lidia ^a   Brandt, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disease models; Fluorescent proteins; Neurodegeneration; Protein dynamics; Time lapse microscopy

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; FLUORESCENT DYE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; PRESENILIN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DENDRITE; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MEMBRANE BINDING; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SYNAPSE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; ANIMAL; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STAINING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL LINE; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOCHONDRIA; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 70149102292     PISSN: 19376448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1937-6448(09)76002-2     Document Type: Review

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