Neuronal labeling with Spaghetti Monster
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Blog Post
...neuroscience research. The use of genetic tools for visualizing and perturbing circuits together with the development...expressed. As these epitopes tags have no intrinsic visual signal, they cannot be detected directly in live...also use multiple FPs in single experiments and visualize numerous molecules or structures at once (Shaner...multi-color imaging experiments, the second color is usually provided by red fluorescent proteins such as tdTomato...using smFPs and standard neuronal tracers.
2. Visualization of neuronal sub-cellular structures
GFP is limited...structures. For instance, smFPs have been used to visualize “thorny excrescence” (TE) spines in the Hippocampal...appear to be very effective probes for finely visualising sub-cellular structures or low-abundance proteins...