Application of Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM) to visualize prolactin (PRL) and PRL mRNA in the normal and estrogen-treated rat pituitary glands using non-fluorescent probes

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 157-167

  Itoh, Johbu ^a   Sanno, Naoko ^a   Matsuno, Akira ^b   Itoh, Yoshiko ^a   Watanabe, Keiichi ^a   Osamura, R Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

CLSM; Estrogen; IAS; Immunohistochemistry; In situ hybridization; MRNA; Pituitary cells; Prolactin

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; PROBES; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL-LASER-SCANNING-MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEMS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN-SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MRNA; OESTROGENS; PITUITARY CELL; PROLACTIN; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUMS;

RNA;

ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; ARMORACIA RUSTICANA;

EID: 0030658004     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19971015)39:2<157::AID-JEMT7>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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