Color-coded imaging of spontaneous vessel anastomosis in vivo

Anticancer Research

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3041-3046

  Uehara, Fuminari ^a,b,c   Tome, Yasunori ^a,b,c   Reynoso, Jose ^a   Mii, Sumiyuki ^a,b   Yano, Shuya ^a,b   Miwa, Shinji ^a,b   Bouvet, Michael ^b   Maehara, Hiroki ^c   Kanaya, Fuminori ^c   Moossa, Abdool R ^b,d   Hoffman, Robert M ^a,b  

^a ANTICANCER INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^d Robert M Hoffman Foundation for Cancer Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; Angiogenesis; Blood vessels; Color coded imaging; Confocal microscopy; Gelfoam ; Green fluorescent protein; Nestin; Red fluorescent protein; Transgenic nude mice; Vascularization

Indexed keywords

GELFOAM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NESTIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; COLOR CODED IMAGING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; LASER MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REIMPLANTATION; SKIN FLAP; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TRANSPLANTATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ANASTOMOSIS; ANGIOGENESIS; BLOOD VESSELS; COLOR-CODED IMAGING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GELFOAM®; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NESTIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TRANSGENIC NUDE MICE; VASCULARIZATION;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD31; BLOOD VESSELS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GELATIN SPONGE, ABSORBABLE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC;

EID: 84883299604     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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