High-throughput imaging of adult fluorescent zebrafish with an LED fluorescence macroscope

Nature Protocols

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 229-241

  Blackburn, Jessica S ^a,b,c   Liu, Sali ^a,b,c   Raimondi, Aubrey R ^a,b,c   Ignatius, Myron S ^a,b,c   Salthouse, Christopher D ^d   Langenau, David M ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ELASTOMER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ADULT ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; FLUORESCENCE MACROSCOPE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR ENGRAFTMENT; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; SOFTWARE; VIDEO RECORDING; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79551671762     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2010.170     Document Type: Article

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