Multiphoton high-resolution 3D imaging of Langerhans cells and keratinocytes in the mouse skin model adopted for epidermal powdered immunization

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 126, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1541-1548

  Mulholland, William J ^a,b   Arbuthnott, Edward A H ^a   Bellhouse, Brian J ^a   Cornhill, J Frederick ^a   Austyn, Jonathan M ^a   Kendall, Mark A F ^a   Cui, Zhanfeng ^a   Tirlapur, Uday K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VOLUME; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG TARGETING; EPIDERMAL POWDERED IMMUNIZATION; EPIDERMIS; GENE GUN; HISTOGRAM; HISTOLOGY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNIZATION; KERATINOCYTE; LANGERHANS CELL; MICROSCOPE; MOUSE; NEAR INFRARED MULTIPHOTON LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIN CELL; STRATUM CORNEUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BIOLISTICS; BREAST; EPIDERMIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTES; LANGERHANS CELLS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; MODELS, ANIMAL; SKIN; VACCINATION;

EID: 33745206289     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jid.5700290     Document Type: Article

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