Using the Fluorescent Styryl Dye FM1-43 to Visualize Synaptic Vesicles Exocytosis and Endocytosis in Motor Nerve Terminals

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 689, Issue , 2011, Pages 137-148

  Amaral, Ernani ^a   Guatimosim, Silvia ^a   Guatimosim, Cristina ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

endocytosis; exocytosis; fluorescence microscopy; FM1 43; neuromuscular junction; synaptic vesicles

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORESCENT DYE; FM1 43; PYRIDINIUM DERIVATIVE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; EXOCYTOSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE VESICLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EXOCYTOSIS; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PYRIDINIUM COMPOUNDS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 79953143027     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-950-5_8     Document Type: Chapter

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