Visualizing hippocampal neurons with in vivo two-photon microscopy using a 1030 nm picosecond pulse laser

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kawakami, Ryosuke ^a,c   Sawada, Kazuaki ^a   Sato, Aya ^b,c   Hibi, Terumasa ^a,c   Kozawa, Yuichi ^b,c   Sato, Shunichi ^b,c   Yokoyama, Hiroyuki ^b,c   Nemoto, Tomomi ^a,c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LASER; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LASERS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; TIME FACTORS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873122424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01014     Document Type: Article

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