Intravital microscopy for imaging subcellular structures in live mice expressing fluorescent proteins

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 79, 2013, Pages

  Masedunskas, Andrius ^a,b   Porat Shliom, Natalie ^a   Tora, Muhibullah ^a   Milberg, Oleg ^a,c   Weigert, Roberto ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal biology; Animal models; Cell biology; Cellular biology; Confocal microscopy; Exocytosis; Fluorescence; In vivo imaging; Intravital microscopy; Issue 79; Microscopy; Multiphoton; Salivary glands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883611445     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50558(2013)     Document Type: Article

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