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Three-dimensional Quantification of Intestinal Mucus Using Whole-mount Tissue Imaging
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Ex vivo measurements of mucus secretion by colon explants
Jenny K Gustafsson1, Henrik Sjövall, Gunnar C Hansson
1Department of Medical Biochemistry, Mucin Biology Group, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|January 20, 2012
Abstract:
An explant tissue system for the study and recording of mucus secretion has been developed. Human colon biopsies or tissue from experimental animals are mounted in a horizontal perfusion chamber and the mucus accumulated on the apical side is observed and measured.
