Visualizing blood cell emergence from aortic endothelium.

Swiers, Gemma; Speck, Nancy A; de Bruijn, Marella F T R · Cell Stem Cell · 2010

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Three recent Nature papers use time-lapse confocal imaging to visualize the birth of blood cells from the aortic endothelium. Two studies (Bertrand et al., 2010; Kissa and Herbomel, 2010) utilize the zebrafish embryo, while the third (Boisset et al., 2010) develops a novel technique to image the mouse aorta.