Transgenic strategy for identifying synaptic connections in mice by fluorescence complementation (GRASP)

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEBRUARY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Yamagata, Masahito ^a   Sanes, Joshua R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GFP; GRASP; Mouse; Neurexin; Neuroligin; Photoreceptor; Retina; Rod; Synapse

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; NEUREXIN; NEUROLIGIN;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CONTACT; CELL LABELING; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRE DEPENDENT GENE; EMBRYO; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SWITCHING; GFP RECONSTITUTION ACROSS SYNAPTIC PARTNER METHOD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; INTERNEURON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PREDICTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA; RETINA CONE; RETINA OUTER MOLECULAR LAYER; RETINA ROD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSGENICS;

EID: 84857296452     PISSN: 16625099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2012.00018     Document Type: Article

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