Hypothesis for the influence of fixatives on the chromatin patterns of interphase nuclei, based on shrinkage and retraction of nuclear and perinuclear structures

British Journal of Biomedical Science

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 105-113

  Bignold, Leon P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Hardness; Nuclear membrane; Tissue fixation

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALDEHYDE; FIXATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE; GLUTARALDEHYDE; OSMIUM TETRAOXIDE;

CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTERPHASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 0036305270     PISSN: 09674845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09674845.2002.11783646     Document Type: Review

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