Strategies to minimize background autofluorescence in live mice during noninvasive fluorescence optical imaging

Lab Animal

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 40-43

  Bhaumik, Srabani ^a   Depuy, Jeannette ^a   Klimash, June ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DIET; ELEMENTAL DIET; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; LABORATORY; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NUDE MOUSE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STANDARD;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; DIET; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FOOD, FORMULATED; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; LASERS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 34548261266     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0907-40     Document Type: Article

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