Imaging of rat optic nerve axons in vivo

Nature Protocols

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1887-1896

  Koch, Jan C ^a   Knöferle, Johanna ^a   Tönges, Lars ^a   Michel, Uwe ^a   Bähr, Mathias ^a   Lingor, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM SENSITIVE DYE; DYE; FLUOROPHORE; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM MOBILIZATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE LESION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CALCIUM; DEPENDOVIRUS; FEMALE; GENETIC VECTORS; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NERVE DEGENERATION; OPTIC NERVE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

RATTUS;

EID: 80955137957     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.403     Document Type: Article

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