A low percent ethanol method for immobilizing planarians

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Stevenson, Claire G ^a   Beane, Wendy Scott ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CELL REGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGING; IMMOBILIZATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; STEM CELL; TURBELLARIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DRUG EFFECT; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION; REPORTER GENE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; PLANARIA; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; TURBELLARIA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ETHANOL; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENES, REPORTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOVEMENT; PLANARIANS; REGENERATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78650794603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015310     Document Type: Article

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