Tract-tracing in developing systems and in postmortem human material using carbocyanine dyes

Neuroanatomical Tract-Tracing 3: Molecules, Neurons, and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 366-393

  Molnár, Zoltán ^a   Blakey, Daniel ^a   Bystron, Irina ^b,c   Carney, Rosalind S E ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbocyanine dyes; Cortex; Development; Photoconversion; Primate; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882915646     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-28942-9_12     Document Type: Chapter

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