Prospects for tissue-specific analysis of gene expression in Xenopus embryos through laser-mediated microdissection of histological sections

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 199, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 381-389

  Imamichi, Yukiko ^a   Koebernick, Katja ^b   Wedlich, Doris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Laser mediated catapulting (LMC); Laser microbeam microdissection (LMM); RT PCR; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; LASER; LASER MICRODISSECTION; MARKER GENE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; RELIABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; TISSUE SECTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0043065522     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0344-0338-00434     Document Type: Article

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