Simple microfluidic devices for in vivo imaging of C. elegans, drosophila and zebrafish

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 67, 2012, Pages

  Mondal, Sudip ^a   Ahlawat, Shikha ^a   Koushika, Sandhya P ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Anesthetic; Bioengineering; C. elegans; Dendritic transport of glutamate receptors; Drosophila larvae; Heartbeat; Issue 67; Microfluidics; Mitochondrial transport; Molecular biology; Neuroscience; Pre synaptic vesicle transport; Synaptotagmin transport; Zebrafish larvae

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889924310     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3780     Document Type: Article

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