Measuring the resolution of uncompressed plastic sections cut using an oscillating knife ultramicrotome

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-35

  Sader, Kasim ^a   Reedy, Michael ^b   Popp, David ^c   Lucaveche, Carmen ^b   Trinick, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Oscillating ultramicrotome knife; Section resolution and compression

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; PLASTIC;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HISTOLOGY; KNIFE CUT; MACROMOLECULE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRAMICROTOMY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; CATALASE; HUMANS; MICROTOMY; MUSCLES; PLASTICS; TISSUE EMBEDDING; TISSUE PRESERVATION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 34249930831     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2007.01.019     Document Type: Article

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