Chapter 23 Electron Microscopy and EM Immunocytochemistry

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 44, Issue C, 1994, Pages 411-444

  McDonald, Kent L ^a,b  

^a Electron Microscope Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON;

EID: 0028695433     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(08)60926-7     Document Type: Article

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