Visualization of β-galactosidase by enzyme and immunohistochemistry in the olfactory bulb of transgenic mice carrying the LacZ transgene

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1147-1155

  Sekerková, Gabriela ^a,b,e   Katarova, Zoya ^a   Joó, Ferenc ^a   Wolff, Joachim R ^c   Prodan, Simona ^a,f   Szabó, Gábor ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Romania)

Author keywords

GAD LacZ fusion protein; Neuronal labeling; Olfactory system; Output neurons; Transgenic expression

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; OLFACTORY BULB; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0030848963     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002215549704500812     Document Type: Article

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