MGRASP enables mapping mammalian synaptic connectivity with light microscopy

Nature Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 96-102

  Kim, Jinhyun ^a,b   Zhao, Ting ^a,c   Petralia, Ronald S ^d   Yu, Yang ^a   Peng, Hanchuan ^a   Myers, Eugene ^a   Magee, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; EMBRYO; FLUORESCENCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMALIAN GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN RECONSTITUTION ACROSS SYNAPTIC PARTNER TECHNIQUE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; ELECTROPORATION; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT CHIMERIC PROTEINS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84856418376     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1784     Document Type: Article

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