An optimized procedure for whole-mount in situ hybridization on mouse embryos and embryoid bodies

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1194-1201

  Piette, Denis ^a,b   Hendrickx, Marijke ^a,b   Willems, Erik ^a,b,c   Kemp, Caroline R ^a,b,c   Leyns, Luc ^a,b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; RNA, COMPLEMENTARY;

EID: 50249113849     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.103     Document Type: Article

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