An introduction to the wound healing assay using live-cell microscopy

Cell Adhesion and Migration

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 440-451

  Jonkman, James E N ^a   Cathcart, Judith A ^a   Xu, Feng ^a   Bartolini, Miria E ^a   Amon, Jennifer E ^b   Stevens, Katarzyna M ^b   Colarusso, Pina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collective cell migration; Live cell microscopy; Physical exclusion assay; Scratch assay; Sheet migration; Wound healing assay

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CELL CULTURE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROSCOPE; MICROSCOPY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SAMPLING; WOUND HEALING; BIOASSAY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84921796550     PISSN: 19336918     EISSN: 19336926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cam.36224     Document Type: Review

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