Simultaneous in vivo imaging of blood and lymphatic vessel growth in Prox1-GFP/Flk1::myr-mCherry mice

FEBS Journal

Volumn 282, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1458-1467

  Zhu, Jimmy ^a   Dugas Ford, Jennifer ^a   Chang, Michael ^a   Purta, Patryk ^a   Han, Kyu Yeon ^a   Hong, Young Kwon ^b   Dickinson, Mary E ^c   Rosenblatt, Mark I ^a   Chang, Jin Hong ^a   Azar, Dimitri T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

angiogenesis; cornea; endothelial cells; in vivo imaging; lymphangiogenesis

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN; ALKALI; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; PROSPERO-RELATED HOMEOBOX 1 PROTEIN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A, MOUSE; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MALE; MOUSE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOMICROSCOPY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMICAL BURN; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ALKALIES; ANIMALS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CORNEAL INJURIES; CORNEAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 84927630554     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/febs.13234     Document Type: Article

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