Preferential silver reaction of nucleolar regions adjacent to fibrillar centers in ring shaped nucleoli of leukemic lymphocytes

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 257-270

  Smetana, Karel ^a   Jirásková, Ilona ^a   Sedláčková, Milada ^a   Dvořák, Richard ^b   Špátová, Milada ^b   Hozák, Pavel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Leukemic lymphocytes; Nucleolar regions at fibrillar centers; Nucleoli; Silver staining of proteins

Indexed keywords

FIXATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE; GLUTARALDEHYDE; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME NOR; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SILVER STAINING;

EID: 0344701053     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-1281(98)80012-3     Document Type: Article

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