Ultrastructural detection of neuronally transported choleragenoid by postembedding immunocytochemistry in freeze-substituted Lowicryl HM20(TM) embedded tissue

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 129-136

  Ragnarson, Birger ^a   Örnung, Göran ^a   Ottersen, Ole P ^b   Grant, Gunnar ^a   Ulfhake, Brun ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Anterograde; Central cervical nucleus; Cholera toxin B fragment; Ia primary afferent; Immunogold electron microscopy; Motoneuron; Rat; Retrograde

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; ISOTOPE LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACRYLIC RESINS; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; CHOLERA TOXIN; FEMALE; FREEZE SUBSTITUTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; TISSUE EMBEDDING;

EID: 0032580252     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(97)00206-9     Document Type: Article

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