Quantification of synaptic structure formation in cocultures of astrocytes and hippocampal neurons

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 758, Issue , 2011, Pages 361-390

  Roqué, Pamela J ^a   Guizzetti, Marina ^b   Giordano, Gennaro ^b   Costa, Lucio G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Confocal microscopy; Deconvolution; Hippocampal neurons; Immuno cytochemistry; Postsynaptic density protein 95; Synaptophysin; Three dimensional analysis

Indexed keywords

POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL STRUCTURE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURONS; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 80052934890     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-170-3_25     Document Type: Article

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