Measuring the Size of Biological Nanostructures with Spatially Modulated Illumination Microscopy

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2449-2455

  Martin, Sonya ^a   Failla, Antonio Virgilio ^b,c   Spöri, Udo ^b   Cremer, Christoph ^b   Pombo, Ana ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY H5; NANOPARTICLE; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS STRUCTURES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RNA POLYMERASE II;

EID: 2342639627     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E04-01-0045     Document Type: Article

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