Immunocytochemistry of extracellular matrix components in the rat seminiferous tubule: Electron microscopic localization with improved methodology

Anatomical Record

Volumn 248, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 51-62

  Yazama, Futoshi ^a   Esaki, Michiyo ^a   Sawada, Hajime ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

extracellular matrix; immunoelectron microscopy; nanogold; rat; seminiferous tubule; testis; ultrathin frozen sections

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 4; COLLAGEN TYPE 5; COLLAGEN TYPE 6; HEPARAN SULFATE; PROTEOGLYCAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL INTERACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LAMINA PROPRIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBRONECTINS; HEPARAN SULFATE PROTEOGLYCANS; HEPARITIN SULFATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMININ; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PROTEOGLYCANS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MYOIDEA;

EID: 0030902008     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199705)248:1<51::AID-AR6>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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