Neuroanatomical phenotyping of the mouse brain with three-dimensional autofluorescence imaging

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 778-785

  Gleave, Jacqueline A ^a   Wong, Michael D ^a   Dazai, Jun ^a   Altaf, Maliha ^a   Mark Henkelman, R ^a,b   Lerch, Jason P ^a,b   Nieman, Brian J ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Optical projection tomography; Phenotype; Sexual dimorphism; Whisker barrel

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL PROJECTION TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE FIXATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROANATOMY; OPTICAL IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; TISSUE FIXATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

MUS;

EID: 84865625696     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00055.2012     Document Type: Article

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