Bioluminescent imaging in bone

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 455, Issue , 2008, Pages 261-272

  Zilberman, Yoram ^a   Gafni, Yossi ^a   Pelled, Gadi ^a   Gazit, Zulma ^a   Gazit, Dan ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bioluminescence; Bone development; Bone regeneration; Cooled charge coupled device imaging; Gene expression; Luciferase; Luciferin; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84934442318     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-104-8_18     Document Type: Article

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