How to "Read" a Vitreous Section

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 2007, Issue 79, 2007, Pages 385-406

  Dubochet, Jacques ^a   Zuber, Benoît ^a   Eltsov, Mikhail ^a   Bouchet Marquis, Cédric ^a   Al Amoudi, Ashraf ^a   Livolant, Françoise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CELL CULTURE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HELA CELL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD; ULTRAMICROTOMY;

ARTIFACTS; CELLS, CULTURED; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYOULTRAMICROTOMY; HELA CELLS; HUMANS;

EID: 33847214857     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(06)79015-X     Document Type: Review

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