Molecular imaging of the embryonic heart: Fables and facts on 3D imaging of gene expression patterns

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 224-240

  Ruijter, Jan M ^a   Soufan, Alexandre T ^a   Hagoort, Jaco ^a   Moorman, Antoon F M ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOMICROSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEART; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LASER MICROSCOPY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; ORGANOGENESIS; RATS;

EID: 9644270157     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20018     Document Type: Review

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