Assaying dynamic cell-cell junctional communication using noninvasive and quantitative fluorescence imaging techniques: LAMP and infrared-LAMP

Nature Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 94-101

  Yang, Song ^a,b,c   Li, Wen Hong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GUIZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN; COUMARIN; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL TRANSFER; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNODIFFUSION; INFRARED RADIATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGHT SCATTERING; LOCAL ACTIVATION OF MOLECULAR FLUORESCENT PROBES; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; CELL COMMUNICATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; PHYSIOLOGY;

CELL COMMUNICATION; COUMARINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; INFRARED RAYS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 61449098545     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.219     Document Type: Article

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