Intravital microscopy involves imaging cells of a live animal through an imaging window that is implanted into the animal tissue during a special surgery. The main advantage of intravital microscopy is that it allows imaging living cells while they are in the true environment of a complex multicellular organism .

2023年12月21日 · Intravital microscopy (IVM) is the direct visualization of cells and tissues within a living organism. Using modern methods, researchers can study complex physiological processes, phagocytosis, and even tumor growth and metastasis formation.

2020年6月4日 · Intravital microscopy is a term that encompasses several optical microscopy techniques that are applied to living animals for kinetic and functional studies. Its...

2021年2月16日 · Intravital microscopy (IVM) study approach offers several advantages over in vitro, ex vivo, and 3D models. IVM provides real-time imaging of cellular events, which provides us a comprehensive picture of dynamic processes.

2010年4月7日 · Intravital microscopy encompasses various optical microscopy techniques aimed at visualizing biological processes in live animals.

Intravital microscopy (IVM) is one of the most powerful imaging approaches aimed at visualizing cellular processes in live animals under both physiological and pathological conditions.

Intravital microscopy is a method of imaging tissues or cells in an animal (typically a mouse) while it is still living. This is done by creating an imaging or vacuum window in an anesthetized animal. Each vacuum window has been developed and optimized for different organs.

Intravital microscopy is defined as a type of microscopy that can directly image the living organism. In practice, categorized by the combination of key techniques to implement intravital microscopy, there are two most widely used forms of microscopies, fluorescence confocal laser-scanning microscopy and fluorescence two-photon laser-scanning ...

2012年12月14日 · This novel high-resolution intravital microscopy method has a huge potential for numerous applications in neurosciences, immunology, cancer research and developmental biology. Moreover, our striped-illumination approach is able to improve the resolution of any laser-scanning-microscope, including confocal microscopes, by simply choosing an ...

The approach of “seeing” cells in the live animal is called intravital imaging or in vivo microscopy (IVM). Recent advancements in microscope technologies, new strains of reporter mice, novel surgical approaches, and broad access to fluorochrome conjugated monoclonal antibodies, have led us to now visualize, at sub-cellular level, deep into ...