Neuronal tracing
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Neuronal tracing, or neuron reconstruction is a technique used in neuroscience to determine the pathway of the neurites or neuronal processes, the axons and dendrites, of a neuron. From a sample preparation point of view, it may refer to some of the following as well as other genetic neuron labeling techniques,
- Anterograde tracing, for labeling from the cell body to synapse;
- Retrograde tracing, for labeling from the synapse to cell body;
- Viral neuronal tracing, for a technique which can be used to label in either direction;
- Manual tracing of neuronal imagery.
In broad sense, neuron tracing is more often related to digital reconstruction of a neuron's morphology from imaging data of above samples.
Digital neuronal reconstruction and neuronal tracing
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