Non-invasive, in vivo fluorescent imaging of the nervous system in whole living animal

摘要

A method is disclosed involving detecting the expression of a fluorescent protein of interest in an animal, wherein the animal is a transgenic animal having in its genome nucleic acid encoding said fluorescent protein operably linked to promoter nucleic acid from a protein that is normally expressed in the nervous system of the animal, the method comprising the step of non-invasively detecting fluorescence from said protein when expressed in said animal.