Quantitative comparison of pretreatment regimens used to sensitize in situ hybridization using oligonucleotide probes on paraffin-embedded brain tissue

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1707-1713

  Oliver, Kevin R ^a   Heavens, Robert P ^a   Sirinathsinghji, Dalip J S ^a  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image analysis; In situ hybridization; Oligonucleotide; Pretreatment; Proenkephalin; Rat brain

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PARAFFIN; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROBE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA PROBE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030713997     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002215549704501214     Document Type: Article

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