Tracking morphogenetic tissue deformations in the early chick embryo

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 56, 2011, Pages

  Filas, Benjamen A ^a   Varner, Victor D ^a   Voronov, Dmitry A ^a,b   Taber, Larry A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Chick embryo; Developmental biology; Issue 56; Labeling; Morphogenesis; Optical coherence tomography; Strain analysis; Time lapse imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054911197     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3129     Document Type: Article

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