A new automated 3D detection of synaptic contacts reveals the formation of cortico-striatal synapses upon cocaine treatment in vivo

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 220, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2953-2966

  Heck, Nicolas ^a,b   Dos Santos, Marc ^a,b   Amairi, Brahim ^a,b   Salery, Marine ^a,b   Besnard, Antoine ^a,b,c   Herzog, Etienne ^d,e   Boudier, Thomas ^b   Vanhoutte, Peter ^a,b   Caboche, Jocelyne ^a,b  

^a and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche 8246   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e University of Bordeaux   (France)

Author keywords

3D segmentation; Axonal bouton; Cocaine; Dendritic spine; Striatum; VGLUT1

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENDRITIC SPINE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; AXON; CYTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; AXONS; COCAINE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENDRITIC SPINES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; NEOSTRIATUM; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84940600469     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0837-2     Document Type: Article

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