Selective visualization of fluorescent sterols in caenorhabditis elegans by bleach-rate-based image segmentation

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Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 440-454

  Wüstner, Daniel ^a   Landt Larsen, Ane ^a   Færgeman, Nils J ^a   Brewer, Jonathan R ^b   Sage, Daniel ^c  

^a Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ^*  (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bleaching; Cholesterol; Dehydroergosterol; Fluorescence; In vivo imaging; Multiphoton microscopy; Segmentation; Transport

Indexed keywords

ERGOSTEROL; NATURAL CYTOTOXICITY TRIGGERING RECEPTOR 1; STEROL;

ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; BACTERIAL KINETICS; BLEACHING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENETIC SCREENING; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; IN VIVO STUDY; LARVAL STAGE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA INTERFERENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; ERGOSTEROL; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ULTRAVIOLET; PHOTOBLEACHING; RECEPTORS, LDL; RNA INTERFERENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77951780747     PISSN: 13989219     EISSN: 16000854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2010.01040.x     Document Type: Article

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