Correlative light and electron microscopy to study microglial interactions with β-amyloid plaques

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn 2016, Issue 112, 2016, Pages

  Bisht, Kanchan ^a   El Hajj, Hassan ^a   Savage, Julie C ^a   Sánchez, Maria G ^a   Tremblay, Marie Ève ^a  

^a University Laval   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer s disease; Amyloid ; Electron microscopy; Fluorescence microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Issue 112; Microglia; Mouse model; Neuroscience

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID PLAQUE; ANIMAL; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROGLIA; MOUSE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; MICE; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PLAQUE, AMYLOID;

EID: 84977535322     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/54060     Document Type: Article

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