Learning about truth and biases through experience: Section surface corrugation, protein denaturation, and staining

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-42

  Kellenberger, Eduard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crystallographic resolution; Embedding resins; Image resolution; Yield of immunolabel

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COPOLYMERIZATION; HEAVY METALS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PROTEINS; SURFACE TREATMENT;

ANTIGENICS; COPOLYMERISATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC RESOLUTION; EMBEDDING RESIN; EMBEDDINGS; IMMUNOLABELLING; ORGANIC LIQUID; PROTEIN DENATURATION; SURFACE CORRUGATIONS; YIELD OF IMMUNOLABEL;

RESINS;

FIXATIVE; RESIN;

ANTIBODY LABELING; EMBEDDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; REVIEW; STAINING; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TISSUE FIXATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031903296     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19980701)42:1<33::AID-JEMT5>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Review

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