High-pressure freezing, cellular tomography, and structural cell biology

BioTechniques

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 137-143

  McDonald, Kent L ^a   Auer, Manfred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FREEZING; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; TOMOGRAPHY;

CELL ULTRASTRUCTURES; CELLULAR TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPISTS; LIGHT MICROSCOPES;

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

ARTIFACT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FREEZING; HUMAN; HYPERBARISM; NONHUMAN; PRESERVATION; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANIMAL; CELL; CRYOPRESERVATION; FREEZE DRYING; METHODOLOGY; PRESSURE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELLS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FREEZE SUBSTITUTION; FREEZING; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PRESSURE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33748555841     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000112226     Document Type: Review

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