Quantitative imaging of collective cell migration during Drosophila gastrulation: Multiphoton microscopy and computational analysis

Nature Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1397-1412

  Supatto, Willy ^a,b   McMahon, Amy ^a   Fraser, Scott E ^a,b   Stathopoulos, Angelike ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GASTRULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 70349109216     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2009.130     Document Type: Article

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