The frog neuromuscular junction revisited after quick-freezing-freeze-drying: Ultrastructure, immunogold labelling and high resolution calcium mapping

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1381, 1999, Pages 373-378

  Pezzati, R ^a   Grohovaz, F ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Election spectroscopic imaging; Electron energy loss spectroscopy; Endoplasmic reticulum; Synaptic vesicles; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANURA;

EID: 0033611692     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0389     Document Type: Conference Paper

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