Neurite-J: An Image-J plug-in for axonal growth analysis in organotypic cultures

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 236, Issue , 2014, Pages 26-39

  Torres Espin A ^a   Santos, D ^a   Gonzalez Perez F ^a   del Valle, J ^a   Navarro, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dorsal root ganglia culture; ImageJ; Neurite growth; Spinal cord slice culture

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COLLAGEN; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CELL REGENERATION; CHEMICAL LABELING; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; EXPLANT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEURITE; NEURITE J; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ORGANOTYPIC THREE DIMENSIONAL CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SHOLL METHOD; SLICE CULTURE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL GANGLION; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY LABELING; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEURITE-J; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANIMAL; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CELL CULTURE; CELL ENLARGEMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL ENLARGEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; DERMOSCOPY; GANGLIA, SPINAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURITES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; SPINAL CORD; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84906494098     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.08.005     Document Type: Article

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