High resolution colonoscopy in live mice

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2900-2904

  Becker, C ^a   Fantini, M C ^b   Neurath, M F ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; MICE;

EID: 34447280907     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.446     Document Type: Article

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