Whole mount preparation of the adult Drosophila ventral nerve cord for giant fiber dye injection

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 52, 2011, Pages

  Boerner, Jana ^a   Godenschwege, Tanja A ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Dye fill; Giant fiber; Immunohistochemistry; In vivo dissection; Issue 52; Neuroscience; Ventral nerve cord

Indexed keywords

EID: 80355148543     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3080     Document Type: Article

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