Semi-automated positional analysis using laser scanning microscopy of cells transfected in a regenerating newt limb

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 559-569

  Pecorino, Lauren T ^a,b   Brockes, Jeremy P ^a,b   Entwistle, Alan ^a  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alkaline phosphatase; Biolistics; Confocal microscopy; Fluorescence histochemistry; Limb regeneration; Retinoic acid

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; RETINOIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; AXIS; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; BLASTEMA; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE HISTOCHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIMB AMPUTATION; LIMB REGENERATION; MARKER GENE; MESENCHYME; MORPHOGENESIS; NEWT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029902727     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/44.6.8666741     Document Type: Article

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