Preparation and observation of fresh-frozen sections of the green fluorescent protein transgenic mouse head

Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 31-34

  Tada, Masahito ^a,c   Shinohara, Yoshinori ^a,d   Kato, Ichiro ^a   Hiraga, Koichi ^a   Aizawa, Tomoyasu ^b   Demura, Makoto ^b   Mori, Yoshihiro ^a   Shinoda, Hiroyuki ^a   Mizuguchi, Mineyuki ^a   Kawano, Keiichi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decalcification; Film method; Green fluorescent protein (GFP); Hard tissue

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILM; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TECHNIQUE; TISSUE PREPARATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33646262060     PISSN: 00445991     EISSN: 13475800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1267/ahc.05051     Document Type: Article

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