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ArticleFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2020

An Immobilization Technique for Long-Term Time-Lapse Imaging of Explanted

Matthew P Bostock, Anadika R Prasad, Rita Chaouni, Alice C Yuen, Rita Sousa-Nunes, Marc Amoyel, Vilaiwan M Fernandes

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Article in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Matthew P BostockDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Anadika R PrasadDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Rita ChaouniCentre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Alice C YuenDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Rita Sousa-NunesCentre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Marc AmoyelDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Vilaiwan M FernandesDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
University College London · GBKing's College London · GB

Funding

Cancer Research UK 14958Medical Research Council MR/P009646/1Medical Research Council MR/P009646/2Wellcome Trust 210472/Z/18/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Time-lapse imaging is an essential tool to study dynamic biological processes that cannot be discerned from fixed samples alone. However, imaging cell- and tissue-level processes in intact animals poses numerous challenges if the organism is opaque and/or motile. Explant cultures of intact tissues circumvent some of these challenges, but sample drift remains a considerable obstacle. We employed a simple yet effective technique to immobilize tissues in medium-bathed agarose. We applied this technique to study multiple

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adult stem cellscell migrationcell proliferationDrosophilaexplant culturinglive imagingneuroblastsoptic lobe

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PMID33117817
PMCPMC7576353
OpenAlexW3092366398

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