Revealing details: Whole mount microRNA in situ hybridization protocol for zebrafish embryos and adult tissues

Biology Open

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 566-569

  Lagendijk, Anne Karine ^a,b   Moulton, Jon D ^d   Bakkers, Jeroen ^a,b,c  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^d Gene Tools LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

In situ hybridization; MicroRNA; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964869217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20466390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/bio.2012810     Document Type: Article

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