Improvement on the visualization of cytoskeletal structures of protozoan parasites using high-resolution field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM)

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 87-95

  Sant'Anna, Celso ^a   Campanati, Loraine ^a   Gadelha, Catarina ^a   Lourenço, Daniela ^a   Labati Terra, Letícia ^a   Bittencourt Silvestre, Joana ^a   Benchimol, Marlene ^b   Cunha e Silva, Narcisa Leal ^a   De Souza, Wanderley ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE SANTA ÚRSULA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Field emission scanning electron microscopy; Giardia lamblia; Immunolabeling; Protozoa; Trypanosomatids

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; AXONEME; CELL ISOLATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HERPETOMONAS MEGASELIAE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTOZOON; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETON; FLAGELLA; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PARASITES; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; HERPETOMONAS MEGASELIAE; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 24344451709     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-005-0786-1     Document Type: Article

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