Multispectral labeling technique to map many neighboring axonal projections in the same tissue

Nature Methods

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 547-552

  Tsuriel, Shlomo ^a,b,c   Gudes, Sagi ^b,c   Draft, Ryan W ^a   Binshtok, Alexander M ^b,c   Lichtman, Jeff W ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; CELL BODY; CELL LABELING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONNECTOME; FEMALE; INNERVATION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PALMITOYLATION; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVARY GLAND; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CYTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE TRACT; PARASYMPATHETIC GANGLION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STAINING; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; GANGLIA, PARASYMPATHETIC; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; STAINING AND LABELING; THALAMUS;

EID: 84930182584     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.3367     Document Type: Article

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