Methods library · Neurons and physiology
Neuronal tract tracing
Also called HRP, DiI, rabies tracing, retrograde tracer
Mapping connections by tracers carried along axons, degeneration after cuts, single-cell fills and transsynaptic viruses.
The film for this method is in production. Until then, the lessons below explain it where they use it.
Where it is taught
20 lessons use this method.
Developmental Neuroscience
- Seeing Neurons: Golgi, Cajal and the Neuron Doctrine
- Tools for Following Cells and Genes
- Head to Tail: Hox Genes, Retinoic Acid and Rhombomeres
- Tangential Migration: Interneurons and the Long Way Round
- The Neural Crest: Cells That Leave Home
- Pioneers, Guideposts and the Logic of Guidance Cues
- Topographic Maps: Sperry's Eye and Eph Gradients
- Activity Before Experience: Spontaneous Retinal Waves
- Ocular Dominance and the Critical Period
- Microglia and Complement Prune Synapses
- Sensitive Periods in Behavior: Song, Language and Sight
- Injury and Regeneration: Why the Brain Does Not Regrow