High-pressure freezing for immunocytochemistry

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 248-258

  Monaghan, P ^a   Perusinghe, N ^a   Muller M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Colloidal gold; Freeze substitution; High pressure freezing; Immunocytochemistry; Lowicryl

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; ANTIGENS; FREEZING; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; MATERIALS HANDLING; MORPHOLOGY; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

CELLULAR MORPHOLOGY; COLLOIDAL GOLD; FREEZE SUBSTITUTION; HIGH-PRESSURE FREEZING; ICE CRYSTALS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LABELINGS; LOWICRYL; RAPID FREEZING; RESIN EMBEDDING;

ACETONE;

ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; FREEZING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; THICKNESS; TISSUE SECTION;

EID: 0032412495     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1998.00387.x     Document Type: Article

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