Southwestern histochemistry as a molecular histochemical tool for analysis of expression of transcription factors: Application to paraffin-embedded tissue sections

Medical Electron Microscopy

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 217-224

  Shin, Masashi ^a   Hishikawa, Yoshitaka ^a   Izumi, Shin ichi ^a   Koji, Takehiko ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CREB; ER; Immunohistochemistry; Liver regeneration; Southwestern histochemistry

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLINE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; PARAFFIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AUTOCLAVE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DNA PROBE; DNA SYNTHESIS; FROZEN SECTION; GENE ACTIVATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CELL NUCLEUS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REVIEW; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUTHWESTERN HISTOCHEMISTRY; TECHNIQUE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; PARAFFIN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TISSUE FIXATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0036992744     PISSN: 09184287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007950200025     Document Type: Review

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