Ultrastructural localization of activity of phosphatases by low temperature incubation of unfixed cryostat sections

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 351-355

  Song, Ji Ying ^a   Tigchelaar, Wikky ^a   Schellens, Jacques P M ^a   Van Marle, J ^a   Van Noorden, C J F ^a   Frederiks, W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5' NUCLEOTIDASE; ACID PHOSPHATASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATASE; THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME HISTOCHEMISTRY; FROZEN SECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TECHNIQUE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0029782270     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02473245     Document Type: Article

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