Generation of dispersed presomitic mesoderm cell cultures for imaging of the zebrafish segmentation clock in single cells

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 89, 2014, Pages

  Webb, Alexis B ^a   Soroldoni, Daniele ^a   Oswald, Annelie ^a   Schindelin, Johannes ^a   Oates, Andrew C ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biological clocks; Developmental biology; Fluorescence; In vitro; Issue 89; Oscillator; Primary cell culture; Primary culture; Somitogenesis; Time lapse imaging; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905015301     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50307     Document Type: Article

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