New technologies for imaging synaptic partners

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 121-127

  Wickersham, Ian R ^a   Feinberg, Evan H ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NEURONAL TRACT TRACER;

CELL LABELING; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EFFERENT NERVE; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MONOSYNAPTIC PATHWAY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84857687177     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2011.12.001     Document Type: Review

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