Calbindin is a marker often used to visualize Purkinje cells. I don't know
which antibodies are best but there should be a lot of papers (eg by Rossi
F./ Turin or Sotelo C./Paris) about that.


Christian

At 16:00 25.11.99 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Can anyone tell me if there is a marker which is specific for
>Purkinje cells?  We would want to use it to look at mouse brain
>sections under the confocal.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Marie Follo
>
>Dept. Int. Med. I
>Universitaetsklinik Freiburg
>Germany
>
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