Lighting up developmental mechanisms: How fluorescence imaging heralded a new era

Development

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 373-387

  Mavrakis, Manos ^a   Pourquié, Olivier ^b,c   Lecuit, Thomas ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Cell dynamics; Fluorescence imaging; GFP; Quantitative biology

Indexed keywords

DECAPENTAPLEGIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MORPHOGEN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 1;

ARTIFACT; BLEACHING; BRIGHTNESS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL LABELING; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; CHROMATOPHORE; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; EPITHELIUM; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BODY PATTERNING; CELL POLARITY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MORPHOGENESIS; PROTEINS;

EID: 74349102518     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.031690     Document Type: Review

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