Confocal Imaging Protocols for Live/Dead Staining in Three-Dimensional Carriers

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 740, Issue , 2011, Pages 127-140

  Gantenbein Ritter, Benjamin ^a   Sprecher, Christoph M ^b   Chan, Samantha ^b   Illien Jünger, Svenja ^b   Grad, Sibylle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Calcein AM; Cell viability; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Ethidium homodimer 1; Hydrogel; PKH26 tracker dye; Tissue

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PKH 26;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE CELL; CATTLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; INJECTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; STAINING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHONDROCYTES; FIBRIN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INJECTIONS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SOLUTIONS; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 79960127934     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-108-6_14     Document Type: Chapter

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