An experimental protocol for in vivo imaging of neuronal structural plasticity with 2-photon microscopy in mice

Experimental and Translational Stroke Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Stetter, Christian ^a   Hirschberg, Markus ^b   Nieswandt, Bernhard ^b   Ernestus, Ralf Ingo ^a   Heckmann, Manfred ^a   Sirén, Anna Leena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

2 photon microscopy; Cranial window; Fluorescence; In vivo imaging; Mouse model; Neurons

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DENDRITIC SPINE; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PHOTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TWO PHOTON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84880026283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20407378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2040-7378-5-9     Document Type: Review

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