Chapter 5 Embryo Slices and Strips: Guidance and Adhesion Assays in the Avian Embryo

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 87, Issue , 2008, Pages 97-113

  Krull, Catherine E ^a   Tosney, Kathryn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION ASSAY; CHICK EMBRYO; CYTOLOGY; DISSECTION; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; STAINING; TISSUE FIXATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION ASSAYS; CHICK EMBRYO; DISSECTION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 43149102697     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(08)00205-7     Document Type: Review

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