In vivo imaging and noninvasive ablation of pyramidal neurons in adult NEX-CreERT2 mice

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1473-1486

  Agarwal, Amit ^a,b   Dibaj, Payam ^a   Kassmann, Celia M ^a   Goebbels, Sandra ^a   Nave, Klaus Armin ^a   Schwab, Markus H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

connectivity; Cre knock in; hippocampus; pyramidal cells; tamoxifen

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CRE RECOMBINASE; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREERT2 GENE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NEX1 GENE; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL SURVIVAL; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; GENES, REPORTER; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POISONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TAMOXIFEN;

EID: 84862876871     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr214     Document Type: Article

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