Microcapillary specifically designed for pressure microinjections of very low volumes

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 229-234

  Kovács, Zsolt István ^a   Palkovits, Miklós ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Anterograde tracer; Brain mapping; Microcapillary; Nanoliter; Pressure injection; Retrograde tracer; Tract tracing; Virus microinjections

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NUCLEUS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; VIRUS INFECTION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROFLUIDICS; PRESSURE; PROCEDURES; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VIROLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHOLERA TOXIN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURONAL TRACT-TRACERS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; WATER;

CHOLERA TOXIN; LEUKOAGGLUTININS, PLANTS; NEURONAL TRACT TRACER; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; WATER;

EID: 77954219741     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.05.016     Document Type: Article

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