PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - L Magrassi
AU  - D Purves
AU  - JW Lichtman
TI  - Fluorescent probes that stain living nerve terminals
AID  - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.07-04-01207.1987
DP  - 1987 Apr 01
TA  - The Journal of Neuroscience
PG  - 1207--1214
VI  - 7
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/7/4/1207.short
4100  - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/7/4/1207.full
SO  - J. Neurosci.1987 Apr 01; 7
AB  - We have evaluated the efficacy of 18 cationic mitochondrial dyes that, as a class, show some ability to stain living nerve terminals. Several of these agents provide excellent staining of neuromuscular junctions in a wide range of species. More detailed studies of the most effective of these dyes--4-(4-diethylaminostyryl)-N-methylpyridinium iodide (4-Di- 2-ASP)--indicate that it has no lasting effect on the structure or function of motor nerve terminals. As demonstrated in the accompanying paper (Lichtman et al., 1987; see also Lichtman et al., 1986), 4-Di-2- ASP can therefore be used to follow the configuration of identified motor terminals over arbitrarily long intervals.