A Critical and Comparative Review of Fluorescent Tools for Live-Cell Imaging

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 79, Issue , 2017, Pages 93-117

  Specht, Elizabeth A ^a   Braselmann, Esther ^a   Palmer, Amy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular dynamics; Fluorescent dyes; Fluorescent proteins; Live cell imaging; Probes

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANTIBODY LABELING; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CHROMATOPHORE; CYCLOADDITION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR CROWDING; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PH; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; ANIMAL; FLUORESCENCE; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; OPTICAL IMAGING; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85013030323     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: 15451585     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physiol-022516-034055     Document Type: Review

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