Fluorescent-protein stabilization and high-resolution imaging of cleared, intact mouse brains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Schwarz, Martin K ^a,d   Scherbarth, Annemarie ^a   Sprengel, Rolf ^a   Engelhardt, Johann ^b   Theer, Patrick ^c   Giese, Guenter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEINACEOUS FLUOROPHORE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROPANOL; TERT BUTYL ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL POPULATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; LATERAL ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MONOSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PH; PROTEIN STABILITY; TARGET CELL; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; C57BL MOUSE; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; HAMSTER; NERVE CELL; PROCEDURES; RABIES VIRUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIROLOGY;

RABIES VIRUS;

1-PROPANOL; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURONS; RABIES VIRUS; TERT-BUTYL ALCOHOL;

EID: 84930679663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124650     Document Type: Article

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