The embryonic mouse hindbrain as a qualitative and quantitative model for studying the molecular and cellular mechanisms of angiogenesis

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 418-429

  Fantin, Alessandro ^a   Vieira, Joaquim M ^a,b   Plein, Alice ^a   Maden, Charlotte H ^a   Ruhrberg, Christiana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATRIGEL;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; LETHALITY; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYO; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; LIGANDS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

EID: 84873352792     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.015     Document Type: Article

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