Intravital Macrozoom Imaging and Automated Analysis of Endothelial Cell Calcium Signals Coincident with Arteriolar Dilation in Cx40BAC-GCaMP2 Transgenic Mice

Microcirculation

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 331-338

  Bagher, Pooneh ^a   Davis, Michael J ^a,b   Segal, Steven S ^a,b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteriole; DiaFluor software; Imaging; Microcirculation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CALCIUM ION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIOLE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREMASTER MUSCLE; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DILATION AND EVACUATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICROIONTOPHORESIS; MICROPIPETTE; MICROSCOPE; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VASODILATATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ARTERIOLES; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; IONTOPHORESIS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY; SOFTWARE; VASODILATION;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 79955162063     PISSN: 10739688     EISSN: 15498719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-8719.2011.00093.x     Document Type: Article

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