Ultrastructural identification of peripheral myelin proteins by a pre-embedding immunogold labeling method

Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-7

  Canron, Marie Hélène ^a   Bouillot, Sandrine ^a   Favereaux, Alexandre ^a   Petry, Klaus G ^a   Vital, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Colloidal gold; Myelin; Peripheral nerve; Pre embedding immunolabeling; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL GOLD; GLUTARALDEHYDE; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; MYELIN PROTEIN; PARAFORMALDEHYDE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 0037351755     PISSN: 10859489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8027.2003.03001.x     Document Type: Article

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