Visualizing the distribution of synapses from individual neurons in the mouse brain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Li, Ling ^a   Tasic, Bosiljka ^a   Micheva, Kristina D ^a   Ivanov, Vsevolod M ^a,b   Spletter, Maria L ^a   Smith, Stephen J ^a   Luo, Liqun ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lynbrook High School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYNAPTOPHYSIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DENSITY; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; GENE ACTIVATION; GRANULE CELL; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LOXP SITE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURKINJE CELL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; TOMOGRAPHY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; NEURONS; PURKINJE CELLS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77955395763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011503     Document Type: Article

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