Long-term in vivo imaging of dendritic spines in the hippocampus reveals structural plasticity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 42, 2014, Pages 13948-13953

  Gu, Ligang ^a   Kleiber, Stefanie ^a   Schmid, Lena ^a   Nebeling, Felix ^a   Chamoun, Miriam ^a   Steffen, Julia ^a   Wagner, Jens ^a   Fuhrmann, Martin ^a  

^a GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavior; Dendritic spines; Hippocampus; In vivo imaging; Structural plasticity; Two photon imaging

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT INFLAMMATORY FACTOR 1; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DENDRITIC SPINES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84907964730     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1464-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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