Assessment of dendritic arborization in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampal region in mice

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn 2015, Issue 97, 2015, Pages

  Das, Devsmita ^a,b   Phillips, Cristy ^c   Lin, Bill ^a   Mojabi, Fatemeh ^a   Baktir, Mehmet Akif ^b   Dang, Van ^a,b   Ponnusamy, Ravikumar ^a   Salehi, Ahmad ^a,b  

^a VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendritic arborization; Doublecortin; Extended depth of field imaging; Golgi cox; High resolution imaging; Image analysis; Issue 97; Neuroscience

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; DENTATE GYRUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS;

EID: 84941241719     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/52371     Document Type: Article

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