Electroporation-based methods for in vivo, whole mount and primary culture analysis of zebrafish brain development

Neural Development

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Hendricks, Michael ^a   Jesuthasan, Suresh ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPORATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROINJECTION; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACIDS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 34547247036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8104-2-6     Document Type: Article

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