2,2′-Thiodiethanol: A new water soluble mounting medium for high resolution optical microscopy

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-9

  Staudt, Thorsten ^a,b   Lang, Marion C ^a   Medda, Rebecca ^b   Engelhardt, Johann ^a   Hell, Stefan W ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aberration; Fluorescence; Imaging; Refractive index mismatch

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUOROPHORES; LENSES; MOUNTINGS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EMBEDDINGS; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURES; HIGH-RESOLUTION OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; IMAGE BRIGHTNESS; IMMERSION LENS; IMMERSION SYSTEMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX MISMATCH; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; TUNABLES; WATERSOLUBLE;

ABERRATIONS;

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ANTIOXIDANT; GLYCEROL; OIL; REAGENT; THIODIGLYCOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; 2,2'-THIODIETHANOL; FLUORESCENT DYE; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBEDDING; FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY; MISCIBILITY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD; REFRACTION INDEX; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; REFRACTOMETRY; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; TISSUE EMBEDDING; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 33846108375     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20396     Document Type: Article

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