Dendra2 photoswitching through the mammary imaging window

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 28, 2009, Pages

  Gligorijevic, Bojana ^a   Kedrin, Dmitriy ^a   Segall, Jeffrey E ^a   Condeelis, John ^a   van Rheenen, Jacco ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cell biology; Fluorescent proteins; Imaging window; Intravasation; Intravital; Invasion; Issue 28; Metastasis; Microenvironment; Microscopy; Photoswitching

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055112765     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/1278     Document Type: Article

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