Development of a fast, objective, quantitative methodology to monitor angiogenesis in the chicken chorioallantoic membrane during development

International Journal of Developmental Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-92

  Verhoelst, Eva ^a   de Ketelaere, Bart ^a   Bruggeman, Veerle ^a   Villamor, Eduardo ^b   Decuypere, Eddy ^a   de Baerdemaeker, Josse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; CAM; Chicken embryo; Hypoxia; Image analysis

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CHICKEN; CHORIOALLANTOIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HYPOXIA; IMAGE PROCESSING; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BLOOD VESSELS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHORIOALLANTOIC MEMBRANE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EQUUS ASINUS;

EID: 79952098859     PISSN: 02146282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1387/ijdb.103119ev     Document Type: Article

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