Increased specificity of colloidal silver staining by means of chemical attenuation

Hereditas

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-70

  Meywald, Thorsten ^a   Scherthan, Harry ^a,b   Nagl, Walter ^a  

^a France   (Germany)

^b The University   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELATIN; POTASSIUM FERRICYANIDE; SODIUM THIOSULFATE;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PREPARATION; COLLOID; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INSECT; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SILVER STAINING;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; COLLOIDS; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; OOCYTES; ORTHOPTERA; PLANTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILVER; SILVER NITRATE; STAINING AND LABELING;

ACHETA DOMESTICUS; ALLIUM CEPA; INSECTA; RHINANTHUS MINOR;

EID: 0030036471     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1996.00063.x     Document Type: Article

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