In vivo imaging of the mouse spinal cord using two-photon microscopy

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 59, 2012, Pages 1-5

  Davalos, Dimitrios ^a   Akassoglou, Katerina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axons; Blood vessels; In vivo two photon microscopy; Issue 59; Microglia; Neuroscience; Spinal cord imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857016532     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/2760     Document Type: Article

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