False positive immunostaining of Locusta neurosecretory cells with a variety of preimmune sera

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 231-240

  Tips, Ann ^a   Schoofs, Liliane ^a   Paemen, Liesbet ^a   Hendrickx, Koen ^a   De Loof, Arnold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROTEIN A; PROTEIN G;

ACCURACY; AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUST; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0031148875     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.6869     Document Type: Article

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