Beads on the Run: Beads as Alternative Tools for Chemotaxis Assays

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 769, Issue , 2011, Pages 449-460

  Theveneau, Eric ^b   Mayor, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cell culture; Chemokine; Chemotaxis; Collective cell migration; Growth cone; Growth factors; Mesoderm; Neural crest; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; MICROSPHERE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL TRACKING; CHEMISTRY; CHEMOTAXIS; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GROWTH CONE; METHODOLOGY; NEURAL CREST; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL MIGRATION ASSAYS; CELL TRACKING; CHEMOTAXIS; GROWTH CONES; HEPARIN; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSPHERES; NEURAL CREST; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; XENOPUS;

EID: 79960919043     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-207-6_30     Document Type: Chapter

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