Two-Photon Microscopy Imaging of thy1GFP-M Transgenic Mice: A Novel Animal Model to Investigate Brain Dendritic Cell Subsets In Vivo

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Laperchia, Claudia ^a,b   Allegra Mascaro, Anna L ^c   Sacconi, Leonardo ^c,d   Andrioli, Anna ^a,b   Mattè, Alessandro ^e   De Franceschi, Lucia ^e   Grassi Zucconi, Gigliola ^a,b   Bentivoglio, Marina ^a,b   Buffelli, Mario ^a,b   Pavone, Francesco S ^c,d,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b National Institute of Neuroscience   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^g International Center of Computational Neurophotonics   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; THY 1 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DENDRITIC CELL; CELL MOTILITY; CELL MOTION; CELL SHAPE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GLIA CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPH NODE; MAST CELL; MENINX; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL MOVEMENT; CHOROID PLEXUS; DENDRITIC CELLS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LYMPH NODES; MENINGES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; MODELS, ANIMAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84873575370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056144     Document Type: Article

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