Chromosome structure: Improved immunolabeling for electron microscopy

Chromosoma

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 365-375

  Maeshima, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Eltsov, Michail ^a,c   Laemmli, Ulrich K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); EMERIN; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MITOSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURES; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II, EUKARYOTIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; THYMOPOIETINS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 27944472239     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-005-0023-7     Document Type: Article

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