Electron cryotomography sample preparation using the Vitrobot

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2813-2819

  Iancu, Cristina V ^a   Tivol, William F ^a   Schooler, Jordan B ^a   Dias, D Prabha ^a   Henderson, Gregory P ^a   Murphy, Gavin E ^a   Wright, Elizabeth R ^a   Li, Zhuo ^a   Yu, Zhiheng ^a   Briegel, Ariane ^a   Gan, Lu ^a   He, Yongning ^a   Jensen, Grant J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYOPRESERVATION; METHODOLOGY; ROBOTICS; STAINING; TOMOGRAPHY;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYOPRESERVATION; ROBOTICS; STAINING AND LABELING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34147099837     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.432     Document Type: Article

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