Imaging and monitoring astrocytes in health and disease

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Escartin, Carole ^a   Murai, Keith K ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

^b Centre for Research in Neuroscience   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Electrophysiology; Gene transfer; High resolution imaging; In vivo analysis; Neuron astrocyte interactions; Reactive astrocytes; Transgenesis

Indexed keywords

ASTROCYTE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDITORIAL; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GENE TRANSFER; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENICS;

EID: 84896943220     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00074     Document Type: Editorial

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