'Semifree-floating' treatment: A simple and fast method to process consecutive sections for immunohistochemistry and neuronal tracing

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-63

  Herzog, Antoine ^a   Brösamle, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Confocal microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Neuroanatomy; Neuronal tracing; Thick sections

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOTIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEXTRANS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROTOMY; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SPINAL CORD; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0343580512     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(96)00156-2     Document Type: Article

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