Q-FIHC: Quantification of fluorescence immunohistochemistry to analyse p63 isoforms and cell cycle phases in human limbal stem cells

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 983-991

  Di Iorio, Enzo ^a   Barbaro, Vanessa ^a   Ferrari, Stefano ^a   Ortolani, Claudio ^b   De Luca, Michele ^a,c   Pellegrini, Graziella ^a  

^a The Veneto Eye Bank Foundation   (Italy)

^b Ospedale Civile di Venice   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell cycle analysis; Fluorescence microscopy; Image analysis; p63 isoforms; Q FIHC; Np63

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; QUALITY CONTROL; STEM CELLS;

CELL CYCLE ANALYSIS; CELL CYCLE PHASE; IMAGE-ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOFORMS; P63 ISOFORM; Q-FLUORESCENCE IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; QUALITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION; STEM-CELL; ΓNP63Α;

FLUORESCENCE;

ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN P63;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL CYCLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA; FLUORESCENCE HISTOCHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STEM CELL; TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33845351324     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20375     Document Type: Article

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