Immunocytochemical strategies for electron microscopy: Choice or compromise

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-36

  Skepper, J N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acrylic resin; Colloidal gold; Cryo immobilization; Epoxy resin; Freeze substitution; Freeze drying; Immunocytochemistry; Immunogold labelling; Low temperature embedding; Transmission electron microscopy; Ultrathin thawed cryo sections

Indexed keywords

EPOXY RESINS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; TEMPERATURE;

ACRYLIC RESINS; COLLOIDAL GOLD; CRYO-IMMOBILIZATION; EMBEDDINGS; FREEZE DRYING; FREEZE SUBSTITUTION; IMMOBILISATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOGOLD-LABELING; LABELINGS; LOW TEMPERATURE EMBEDDING; LOWS-TEMPERATURES; ULTRA-THIN; ULTRATHIN THAWED CRYO-SECTION;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACRYLIC ACID RESIN; COLLOIDAL GOLD; EPOXY RESIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBODY LABELING; ANTIGEN BINDING; BINDING SITE; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FREEZE DRYING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0033947327     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.2000.00704.x     Document Type: Review

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