Overview: Imaging in the study of integrins

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 757, Issue , 2011, Pages 159-189

  Carman, Christopher V ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Clustering, migration; Conformation; Fluorescence; FRET; GFP; Integrin; Microscopy

Indexed keywords

INTEGRIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; HUMANS; INTEGRINS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR IMAGING;

EID: 80054766732     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-166-6_12     Document Type: Article

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