Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Imaging tumour cell heterogeneity following cell transplantation into optically clear immune-deficient zebrafish

  • Qin Tang,
  • John C. Moore,
  • Myron S. Ignatius,
  • Inês M. Tenente,
  • Madeline N. Hayes,
  • Elaine G. Garcia,
  • Nora Torres Yordán,
  • Caitlin Bourque,
  • Shuning He,
  • Jessica S. Blackburn,
  • A. Thomas Look,
  • Yariv Houvras,
  • David M. Langenau

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10358
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Direct visualisation of heterogeneous cell populations in live animals has been challenging. Here, the authors optimize cell transplantation into optically clear immune-deficient zebrafish, and use intravital imaging to track and to assess functional diversity of individual cancer cells in vivo.