High-magnification in vivo imaging of Xenopus embryos for cell and developmental Biology

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Kieserman, Esther K ^a,b   Lee, Chanjae ^a,c   Gray, Ryan S ^b   Park, Tae Joo ^a   Wallingford, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CHEMICAL LABELING; CILIARY MOTILITY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROMANIPULATION; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PROCESS DESIGN; STEREOMICROSCOPY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 77956278335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.prot5427     Document Type: Article

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