Imaging glycans in zebrafish embryos by metabolic labeling and bioorthogonal click chemistry

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 52, 2011, Pages

  Jiang, Hao ^a   Feng, Lei ^a   del Amo, David Soriano ^a   Seidel III , Ronald D ^a   Marlow, Florence ^a   Wu, Peng ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical glycobiology; Click chemistry; Developmental biology; Embryogenesis; Fucosylated glycans; Issue 52; Microinjection

Indexed keywords

EID: 80355131385     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/2686     Document Type: Article

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