Electron microscopic analysis of Drosophila midline glia during embryogenesis and larval development using β-galactosidase expression as endogenous cell marker

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 294-306

  Stollewerk, Angelika ^a   Klämbt, Christian ^a   Cantera, Rafael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Enhancer trap; Glial cells; Nervous system

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRONS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE;

ANTIBODY LABELING; CELL MARKERS; DROSOPHILLA; DROSOPHILLA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYONICS; ENHANCER TRAP; GLIAL CELLS; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MICROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; Β- GALACTOSIDASE;

CELLS;

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CELL MARKER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY LABELING; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPLICATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0029859856     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19961015)35:3<294::AID-JEMT8>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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