Pitfalls in assessing microvascular endothelial barrier function: Impedance-based devices versus the classic macromolecular tracer assay

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Bischoff, Iris ^a   Hornburger, Michael C ^b   Mayer, Bettina A ^b   Beyerle, Andrea ^a   Wegener, Joachim ^c   Fürst, Robert ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; AMIDE; HISTAMINE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE;

BIOASSAY; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

AMIDES; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HISTAMINE; HUMANS; PYRIDINES;

EID: 84963682429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep23671     Document Type: Article

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