An effective manual deboning method to prepare intact mouse nasal tissue with preserved anatomical organization

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 78, 2013, Pages

  Dunston, David ^a   Ashby, Sarah ^a   Krosnowski, Kurt ^a   Ogura, Tatsuya ^a   Lin, Weihong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Animal model; Histochemistry; Issue 78; Mouse; Nasal cavity; Nose; Olfactory epithelium; Olfactory mucosa; Olfactory receptor neurons; Olfactory turbinate; Physiology; Respiratory epithelium; Skull bone removal; Surgery; Tissue engineering; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881507427     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50538     Document Type: Article

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