Isolation and characterization of mouse and human esophageal epithelial cells in 3D organotypic culture

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 235-246

  Kalabis, Jiri ^a   Wong, Gabrielle S ^a   Vega, Maria E ^a   Natsuizaka, Mitsuteru ^a   Robertson, Erle S ^a,b   Herlyn, Meenhard ^c   Nakagawa, Hiroshi ^a   Rustgi, Anil K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; PARAFFIN; RETROVIRUS VECTOR;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL TYPE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EMBEDDING; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTE; LASER MICRODISSECTION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; STEM CELL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84855827259     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.437     Document Type: Article

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