Optimized ratiometric calcium sensors for functional in vivo imaging of neurons and T lymphocytes

Nature Methods

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 175-182

  Thestrup, Thomas ^a,b   Litzlbauer, Julia ^a   Bartholomäus, Ingo ^a   Mues, Marsilius ^a   Russo, Luigi ^c   Dana, Hod ^b   Kovalchuk, Yuri ^d   Liang, Yajie ^d   Kalamakis, Georgios ^d   Laukat, Yvonne ^c   Becker, Stefan ^c   Witte, Gregor ^e   Geiger, Anselm ^a   Allen, Taylor ^f   Rome, Lawrence C ^g,h   Chen, Tsai Wen ^b   Kim, Douglas S ^b   Garaschuk, Olga ^a   Griesinger, Christian ^c   Griesbeck, Oliver ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^h MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CALCIUM; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENT DYES; HEK293 CELLS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; RATS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TROPONIN C;

EID: 84893256698     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2773     Document Type: Article

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