A micro-incubator for cell and tissue imaging

BioTechniques

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 135-138

  Picard, Cyril ^a   Hearnden, Vanessa ^b   Massignani, Marzia ^b   Achouri, Sarra ^a   Battaglia, Giuseppe ^b   MacNeil, Sheila ^b   Donald, Athene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell; Culture; Electrospun; Incubator; Microscopy; Mucosa; PDMS; Polymersomes; Tissue

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPITHELIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS PERMEABILITY; IMAGING; INCUBATOR; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MICROINCUBATOR; MICROSCOPE; NONHUMAN; SENSOR; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; CELL CULTURE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MICROTECHNOLOGY; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INCUBATORS; MICROSCOPY; MICROTECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 77953974813     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000113245     Document Type: Article

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