Ex Utero Culture and Live Imaging of Mouse Embryos

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 770, Issue , 2011, Pages 243-257

  Piliszek, Anna ^a   Kwon, Gloria S ^a   Hadjantonakis, Anna Katerina ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ex utero culture; fluorescent protein; live imaging; Mouse embryo; time lapse

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO CULTURE; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; NIDATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; OPTICAL PROCESSES; UTERUS;

EID: 80052944694     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-210-6_9     Document Type: Chapter

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