The use of Immunofluorescent Array Tomography to study the three-dimensional microstructure of murine blood vessels

Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 311-323

  Saatchi, Sanaz ^a,d   Wanchoo, Nishey ^a   Azuma, Junya ^b   Smith, Stephen J ^c   Tsao, Philip S ^b   Yock, Paul G ^a   Taylor, Charles A ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular morphology; Collagen type I; Elastin; Immunofluorescence microscopy; Infrarenal aorta; Murine blood vessels; Smooth muscle cells; Three dimensional microstructure; Volume fraction

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; ELASTIN; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELUTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENT ARRAY TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TISSUE STRUCTURE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 85027923768     PISSN: 18655025     EISSN: 18655033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12195-011-0165-z     Document Type: Article

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