Confocal imaging of the embryonic heart: How deep?

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 216-223

  Miller, Christine E ^a   Thompson, Robert P ^b   Bigelow, Michael R ^b   Gittinger, George ^b   Trusk, Thomas C ^b   Sedmera, David ^b  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Cardiac; Chick; Development; Embryo; Ethanol; Mouse; Retinoic acid; Teratology; Whole mount immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; HEART; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PATHOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL;

EID: 21044442165     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927605050464     Document Type: Article

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