Staining of fluorogold-prelabeled retinal ganglion cells with calcein-AM: A new method for assessing cell vitality

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 233-239

  Grieshaber, Philippe ^a   Lagrèze, Wolf Alexander ^a   Noack, Christian ^a   Boehringer, Daniel ^a   Biermann, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Calcein; Fluorogold; Quantification; Retinal ganglion cells; Retinal whole mount; Retrograde labeling

Indexed keywords

CALCEIN; CALCEIN ACETOXYMETHYL ESTER; FLUOROGOLD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL LABELING; CELL VIABILITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; STAINING; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; MALE; NERVE CRUSH; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 77956755231     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.07.037     Document Type: Article

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