Tissue clearing for confocal imaging of native and bio-artificial skeletal muscle

Biotechnic and Histochemistry

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 424-431

  Decroix, L ^a   Van Muylder, V ^a   Desender, L ^a   Sampaolesi, M ^b   Thorrez, L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b SKELETAL BIOLOGY AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER   (Belgium)

Author keywords

bio artifi cial; clearing; confocal microscopy; skeletal muscle; tissue engineering; visualization

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOARTIFICIAL ORGAN; CELL CULTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKELETAL MYOBLAST; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL;

ANIMALS; BIOARTIFICIAL ORGANS; CELLS, CULTURED; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOBLASTS, SKELETAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84937218109     PISSN: 10520295     EISSN: 14737760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10520295.2015.1019564     Document Type: Article

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