Quantitative and spatial information on the composition of chimaeric fetal mouse eyes from single histological sections

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 305-317

  West, John D ^a   Hodson, Benjamin A ^a   Keighren, Margaret A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chimaera; Mosaic; Patch size; Retinal pigment epithelium; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; FETUS; HISTOLOGY; MEASUREMENT; MOSAICISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; CHIMAERA; CHIMAERIFORMES;

EID: 0030990403     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1997.t01-2-00006.x     Document Type: Article

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