Influence of post-mortem delay and storage temperature on the immunohistochemical detection of antigens in the CNS of mice

Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 159-171

  Hilbig, Heidegard ^a   Bidmon, Hans Jürgen ^b   Oppermann, Oliver Till ^c   Remmerbach, Torsten ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autolysis; Corpus callosum; Glia; Hippocampus; Lectin binding sites; Mouse brain; Neocortex; Neurofilament

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; CALBINDIN; GALACTOSAMINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LECTIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; CADAVER; CATABOLISM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LECTIN BINDING SITE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; WISTERIA; WISTERIA FLORIBUNDA;

WISTERIA; WISTERIA FLORIBUNDA;

EID: 10344249420     PISSN: 09402993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etp.2004.08.002     Document Type: Article

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