Imaging cell movements in egg-cylinder stage mouse embryos

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Srinivas, Shankar ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MOTION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; GASTRULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; IN VIVO CULTURE; MICRODISSECTION; MICROSCOPE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

EID: 78650046299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.prot5539     Document Type: Article

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