Manipulating and Imaging the Early Xenopus laevis Embryo

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 770, Issue , 2011, Pages 21-54

  Danilchik, Michael V ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cytoskeleton; dorsal ventral axis; embryo; live cell confocal imaging; time lapse microscopy; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LITHIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROFILAMENT; MICROINJECTION; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PSEUDOPODIUM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STAINING; TIME; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CELL SURVIVAL; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MALE; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PSEUDOPODIA; STAINING AND LABELING; TIME FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZYGOTE;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 80052944945     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-210-6_2     Document Type: Chapter

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