Relationship between immunostaining intensity and antigen content in sections

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1451-1458

  Watanabe, Jun ^a   Asaka, Youko ^a   Kanamura, Shinsuke ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antigen content; Image processing; Microphotometry; Quantitative immunohistochemistry; Staining intensity

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE HISTOCHEMISTRY; RAT; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SECTION;

EID: 3242835346     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/44.12.8985137     Document Type: Article

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