From seeing to believing: Labelling strategies for in vivo cell-tracking experiments

Interface Focus

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Progatzky, Fränze ^a   Dallman, Margaret J ^a   Celso, Cristina Lo ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cell biology; Fluorescence microscopy; In vivo imaging; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876558229     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2013.0001     Document Type: Review

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