Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 9, 2018, 1:04 p.m.
...agglutinin WGA, Schwab et al., 1978) or fluorescent molecules such as Fluoro-Gold (Schmued and Fallon, 1986) ...Schmued L.C., and Fallon J.H. (1986). Fluoro-Gold: a new fluorescent retrograde axonal tracer with numerous...either produce a colorimetric product or are fluorescent. While dyes usually spread unidirectionally, ...biotinylated dextran amines (Veenman et al., 1992) or fluorescent molecules like rhodamine-isothiocyanate (RITC...high and neuron-specific transgene expression. Fluorescent proteins are widely used for tracing and their...with an AAV9 vector expressing a Cre-dependent fluorescent marker. Injection into a conditional mutant mouse...., 2017) that express one of a few different fluorescent proteins (red, green, blue). If a researcher ...