A novel embedment-free immunoelectron microscopy technique reveals association of apoptosis-regulating proteins with subcellular structures

Histochemical Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 8-9, 2002, Pages 441-446

  Gajkowska, B ^a   Wojewodzka U ^a  

^a MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS INDUCING FACTOR; APOPTOSIS INHIBITOR; CASPASE 8; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEIN; NIMESULIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BID; VOLTAGE GATED CHANNEL FORMING PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOPLASM; EMBEDDING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BH3 INTERACTING DOMAIN DEATH AGONIST PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CASPASES; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR STRUCTURES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; PORINS; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; STAINING AND LABELING; SULFONAMIDES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT ANION CHANNELS;

EID: 0037505113     PISSN: 00182214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023643722886     Document Type: Article

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