Imaging transient blood vessel fusion events in zebrafish by correlative volume electron microscopy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Armer, Hannah E J ^a   Mariggi, Giovanni ^a   Png, Ken M Y ^b   Genoud, Christel ^c   Monteith, Alexander G ^d   Bushby, Andrew J ^b   Gerhardt, Holger ^a   Collison, Lucy M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^d GATAN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; IMAGING; MUSCLE CELL; MYOTOME; NERVE CELL; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PIGMENT CELL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

ION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLOOD VESSELS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 70450191460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007716     Document Type: Article

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