Application of ultrastructural in situ hybridization combined with immunohistochemistry to pathophysiological studies of pituitary cell: Technical review

Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 259-265

  Matsuno, Akira ^a   Nagashima, Tadashi ^a   Osamura, R Yoshiyuki ^b   Watanabe, Keiichi ^b  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY CHIBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; In situ hybridization; mRNA; Pituitary cell

Indexed keywords

CELL ORGANELLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GROWTH HORMONE; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PROLACTIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 0031722208     PISSN: 00445991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1267/ahc.31.259     Document Type: Conference Paper

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