Preparation of fixed Xenopus embryos for confocal imaging

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Wallingford, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROMANIPULATION; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PROCESS DESIGN; TISSUE SECTION; XENOPUS;

EID: 77956270593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.prot5426     Document Type: Article

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