NeuriteQuant: An open source toolkit for high content screens of neuronal Morphogenesis

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Dehmelt, Leif ^a,b   Poplawski, Gunnar ^c   Hwang, Eric ^d   Halpain, Shelley ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DENDRITE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEURITEQUANT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CELL LINE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DRUG SCREENING; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURITE; PHYSIOLOGY; STANDARD; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VALIDATION STUDY;

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MICE; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURITES; NEUROGENESIS; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 80053627090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-12-100     Document Type: Article

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