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Whole-mount BrdU staining of proliferating cells by DNase treatment: application to postnatal mammalian retina
Andrei V. Tkatchenko
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
BioTechniques, Vol. 40, No. 1, January 2006, pp. 29–32
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We thank D. Eugene Redmond and the staff of the St. Kitts Biomedical Research Foundation for invaluable help; Elio Raviolafor help with micros-copy and helpful discussions. This work was supported by grants from the Ilfeld Macular Degeneration Fund and the Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Center at Harvard Medical School. A.V.T. was the recipient of a Dana Mahoney Neuroscience Fellowship Award.
The author declares no competing interests
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