Chemical Principles in Tissue Clearing and Staining Protocols for Whole-Body Cell Profiling

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 32, Issue , 2016, Pages 713-741

  Tainaka, Kazuki ^a   Kuno, Akihiro ^b   Kubota, Shimpei I ^a   Murakami, Tatzya ^a   Ueda, Hiroki R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical staining; Decolorizing; Fixation; Permeabilization; RI matching; Tissue clearing

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; FLUORESCENT DYE; GLUTARALDEHYDE; PARAFORMALDEHYDE;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; DELIPIDATION; HUMAN; HYDRATION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS; REFRACTION INDEX; REVIEW; STAINING; TISSUE CLEARING; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PREPARATION; WHOLE BODY CELL PROFILING; ANIMAL; CELLS; FLUORESCENCE; METABOLISM; PERMEABILITY; PROCEDURES; REFRACTOMETRY;

ANIMALS; CELLS; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; PERMEABILITY; REFRACTOMETRY; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84990862370     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: 15308995     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-111315-125001     Document Type: Review

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