Genetic labeling of both the axons of transduced, glutamatergic neurons in rat postrhinal cortex and their postsynaptic neurons in other neocortical areas by Herpes Simplex Virus vectors that coexpress an axon-targeted β-galactosidase and wheat germ agglutinin from a vesicular glutamate transporter-1 promoter

Brain Research

Volumn 1361, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-11

  Zhang, Guo Rong ^a   Cao, Haiyan ^a   Li, Xu ^a   Zhao, Hua ^a   Geller, Alfred I ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon tracer; GAP 43; Glutamatergic neuron specific expression; Herpes Simplex Virus vector; Neocortical circuit; Transneuronal tracer; Vesicular glutamate transporter 1 promoter; Wheat germ agglutinin

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; HERPESVIRUS VECTOR; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL LABELING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; LEARNING; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CELL COUNT; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SIMPLEXVIRUS; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 1; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININS;

RATTUS; SIMPLEXVIRUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 78049290394     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.09.030     Document Type: Article

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