In vivo dynamics of retinal microglial activation during neurodegeneration: Confocal ophthalmoscopic imaging and cell morphometry in mouse glaucoma

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn 2015, Issue 99, 2015, Pages

  Bosco, Alejandra ^a   Romero, Cesar O ^a   Ambati, Balamurali K ^a   Vetter, Monica L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell morphometry CX3CR1; Confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy; DBA 2J; Glaucoma; Issue 99; Live image analysis; Medicine; Microglia; Neurodegeneration; Neuroscience; Optic nerve head; Retina; Segmentation by thresholding

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR; CX3CR1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

AGE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DBA MOUSE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MODEL; GLAUCOMA; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETINA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AXONS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLAUCOMA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICROGLIA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE; RETINA;

EID: 84929015190     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/52731     Document Type: Article

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