Whole-mount three-dimensional imaging of internally localized immunostained cells within mouse embryos

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 421-423

  Yokomizo, Tomomasa ^a,b   Yamada Inagawa, Tomoko ^a   Yzaguirre, Amanda D ^c   Chen, Michael J ^c   Speck, Nancy A ^c   Dzierzak, Elaine ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; AORTA; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FLUORESCENCE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84863181231     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.441     Document Type: Article

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