Methods library · Cells and imaging
Birthdating with thymidine analogs
Also called BrdU, EdU, 3H-thymidine
Marking cells that copy their DNA at a known time with 3H-thymidine, BrdU or EdU to find when they were born.
The film for this method is in production. Until then, the lessons below explain it where they use it.
Where it is taught
13 lessons use this method.
Developmental Neuroscience
- Tools for Following Cells and Genes
- The Ventricular Zone: Radial Glia as Stem Cells
- Birth Order and Fate: Temporal Identity and the Inside-Out Cortex
- Reelin and the Reeler Mouse
- Too Many Neurons: Naturally Occurring Cell Death
- The Neurotrophic Hypothesis Tested
- New Neurons in the Adult Brain
- What Makes the Human Brain Big