Hydrogel-Tissue Chemistry: Principles and Applications

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 47, Issue , 2018, Pages 355-376

  Gradinaru, Viviana ^a   Treweek, Jennifer ^a   Overton, Kristin ^b   Deisseroth, Karl ^b,c  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CLARITY; clearing; HTC; hydrogel tissue; hydrogels; metareactant

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COGNITION; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSATION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY;

HUMANS; HYDROGELS;

EID: 85047532033     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: 19361238     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-070317-032905     Document Type: Review

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