Increased concentrations of radioisotopically-labeled complementary ribonucleic acid probe, dextran sulfate, and dithiothreitol in the hybridization buffer can improve results of in situ hybridization histochemistry

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1389-1400

  Hrabovszky, Erik ^a   Petersen, Sandra L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Acid probes; Autoradiography; Background; Brain; Complementary ribonucleic; Dextran sulfate; Dithiothreitol; Image analysis; In situ hybridization; Quantitation; Radioisotope

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DEXTRAN SULFATE; DITHIOTHREITOL; MESSENGER RNA; RADIOISOTOPE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN TISSUE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA PROBE; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036798574     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002215540205001012     Document Type: Article

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