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Bernd Boehm1, Michael Rautschka, Laura Quintana, Jelena Raspopovic, Ziga Jan, James Sharpe.
Abstract
We have created a 2D morphometric analysis of the developing mouse hindlimb bud. This analysis has provided two useful resources for the study of limb development. First, a temporally accurate numerical description of shape changes during normal mouse limb development. Second, a web-based morphometric staging system, which has the advantage of being easy to use, and with a reproducibility of about ±2 hours. It allows users to upload a dorsal-view photo of a limb bud, draw a spline curve and thereby stage the bud within a couple of minutes. We describe how the system is constructed, its robustness to user variation and illustrate one application: the accurate tracking of spatiotemporal dynamics of gene expression patterns.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21307091 PMCID: PMC3042875 DOI: 10.1242/dev.057547
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Development ISSN: 0950-1991 Impact factor: 6.868