High-pressure freezing followed by cryosubstitution as a tool for preserving high-quality ultrastructure and immunoreactivity in the Xenopus laevis pituitary gland

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 155-163

  Wang, Liangchun ^a,b   Humbel, Bruno M ^c   Roubos, Eric W ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

MSH; BDNF; Cryosubstitution; High pressure freezing; Immunogold labelling; Melanotrope cells

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; BRAIN DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; MESOTOCIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FREEZING; HYPERBARISM; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY GRANULE; TISSUE PRESERVATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; FREEZING; ORGAN PRESERVATION; ORGAN PRESERVATION SOLUTIONS; PITUITARY GLAND; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 24744450733     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresprot.2005.07.001     Document Type: Article

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