Cellular, subcellular and functional in vivo labeling of the spinal cord using vital dyes

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 481-490

  Romanelli, Elisa ^a   Sorbara, Catherine D ^a,b   Nikić, Ivana ^a   Dagkalis, Athanasios ^a   Misgeld, Thomas ^b,c,d   Kerschensteiner, Martin ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^d Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFINITY LABELING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL LABELING; CELL TYPE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SPINAL CORD; STAINING AND LABELING; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84875160676     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.022     Document Type: Article

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