An R-CaMP1.07 reporter mouse for cell-type-specific expression of a sensitive red fluorescent calcium indicator

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Bethge, Philipp ^a   Carta, Stefano ^a   Lorenzo, Dayra A ^a   Egolf, Ladan ^a   Goniotaki, Despoina ^a,b   Madisen, Linda ^c   Voigt, Fabian F ^a   Chen, Jerry L ^a,f   Schneider, Bernard ^d   Ohkura, Masamichi ^e   Nakai, Junichi ^e   Zeng, Hongkui ^c   Aguzzi, Adriano ^a,b   Helmchen, Fritjof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; IMAGING; PHOTON; ANIMAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

CALCIUM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NEOCORTEX; PHOTONS;

EID: 85021199764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179460     Document Type: Article

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