Quantifying immunogold labelling patterns of cellular compartments when they comprise mixtures of membranes (surface-occupying) and organelles (volume-occupying)

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 367-378

  Mayhew, Terry M ^a,b   Lucocq, John M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acceptance zones; Gold labelling; Membranes; Organelles; Quantitative immunoelectron microscopy

Indexed keywords

GOLD;

ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL LABELING; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; GONIOMETRY; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; STEREOLOGY;

EID: 39749143900     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-007-0375-6     Document Type: Article

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