Semiautomated correlative 3D electron microscopy of in vivo-imaged axons and dendrites

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1354-1366

  MacO, Bohumil ^a   Cantoni, Marco ^a   Holtmaat, Anthony ^b   Kreshuk, Anna ^c   Hamprecht, Fred A ^c   Knott, Graham W ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL FIXATION; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FOCUSED ION BEAM SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SOFTWARE; IN VIVO STUDY; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; LASER; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE FIXATION; TWO PHOTON LASER; ANIMAL; BRAIN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CYTOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN; DENDRITES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASERS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84901857288     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.101     Document Type: Article

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