High resolution whole mount in situ hybridization within zebrafish embryos to study gene expression and function

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 80, 2013, Pages

  Chitramuthu, Babykumari P ^a,b   Bennett, Hugh P J ^a,b  

^a Endocrine Research Laboratory and Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal models in situ hybridization; Anti sense transcripts; Blood cells; Endoderm; Intermediate cell mass; Issue 80; Life sciences; Morpholino knockdown; Motor neurons; Neuromast; Neuroscience; Progranulin; Pronephric duct; Proprotein convertase; Somites

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EMBRYO CULTURE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METHODOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RNA PROBE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; RNA PROBES; RNA, ANTISENSE; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84886868574     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50644     Document Type: Article

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