Quantifying single microvessel permeability in isolated blood-perfused rat lung preparation

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 88, 2014, Pages

  Kandasamy, Kathirvel ^a   Parthasarathi, Kaushik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury; Anatomy; Capillaries; Ex vivo lung preparation; FITC dextran; Fluorescence microscopy; Imaging; Issue 88; Metamorph; Venule

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903642814     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/51552     Document Type: Article

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