Electron microscopic observation of intracellular expression of mRNA and its protein product: Technical review on ultrastructural in situ hybridization and its combination with immunohistochemistry

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 261-268

  Matsuno, Akira ^a   Nagashima, T ^a   Ohsugi, Y ^b   Utsunomiya, H ^c   Takekoshi, S ^d   Munakata, S ^a   Nagao, K ^a   Osamura, R Y ^d   Watanabe, K ^d  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY CHIBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b TAIHO PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^c WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; In situ hybridization; MRNA; Pituitary cell

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE;

CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FROZEN SECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033982972     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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