Improved application of the electrophoretic tissue clearing technology, CLARITY, to intact solid organs including brain, pancreas, liver, kidney, lung, and intestine

BMC Developmental Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lee, Hyunsu ^a   Park, Jae Hyung ^a   Seo, Incheol ^a   Park, Sun Hyun ^a,b   Kim, Shin ^a  

^a Keimyung University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Brain; CLARITY; Electrophoretic tissue clearing; Nervous system; Purkinje layer

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; INTESTINE; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MOUSE; PANCREAS; PROCEDURES; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ELECTROPHORESIS; INTESTINES; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MICE; OPTICAL IMAGING; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PANCREAS;

EID: 84964315043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471213X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12861-014-0048-3     Document Type: Article

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