Electron tomography of membrane-bound cellular organelles

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 35, Issue , 2006, Pages 199-224

  Frey, Terrence G ^a   Perkins, Guy A ^b   Ellisman, Mark H ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Golgi; Image analysis; Mitochondria; Organelle structure

Indexed keywords

PROTEASOME;

CELL; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; GOLGI COMPLEX; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MACROMOLECULE; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE STRUCTURES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; ORGANELLES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33745017423     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1162/108819806775545330     Document Type: Review

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