Segregation during cleavage in the mammalian embryo? A critical comparison of whole-mount/CLSM and section immunohistochemistry casts doubts on segregation of axis-relevant leptin domains in the rabbit

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 553-570

  Littwin, T ^a   Denker, H W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Cleavage; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Leptin; Segregation; Whole mount versus section IHC

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOKERATIN; LEPTIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEPTIN; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MORULA; RABBITS;

MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 79960243854     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: 1432119X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-011-0816-0     Document Type: Article

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