Three-Dimensional Analysis and Computer Modeling of the Capillary Endothelial Vesicular System with Electron Tomography

Microcirculation

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 477-484

  Wagner, Roger ^a   Modla, Shannon ^a   Hossler, Fred ^b   Czymmek, Kirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b East Tennessee State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary endothelium; TEM tomography; Terbium tracer; Transendothelial channels; Vesicles

Indexed keywords

TERBIUM;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIAL VESICULAR SYSTEM; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; CAPILLARY WALL; CELL VACUOLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYTOPLASM; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOUSE; MUSCLE CAPILLARY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE SECTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TERBIUM;

EID: 84864772115     PISSN: 10739688     EISSN: 15498719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-8719.2012.00181.x     Document Type: Article

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