Preparation, use, and enlargement of ultrasmall gold particles in immunoelectron microscopy

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 66-79

  Baschong, Werner ^a   Stierhof, York Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INST FÜR BIOLOGIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colloidal gold labeling; Cytochemistry; Gold toning; Immunochemistry; Silver enhancement

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; CYTOLOGY; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; SILVER;

COLLOIDAL GOLD; COLLOIDAL GOLD LABELING; CYTOCHEMISTRY; GOLD LABELING; GOLD MARKERS; GOLD TONING; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILVER ENHANCEMENT; ULTRA-SMALL;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

COLLOIDAL GOLD;

ACCURACY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBEDDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SILVER STAINING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031879396     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19980701)42:1<66::AID-JEMT8>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Review

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