High-pressure cryoimmobilization of murine skin reveals novel structural features and prevents extraction artifacts

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 419-425

  Reipert, Siegfried ^a   Fischer, Irmgard ^a   Wiche, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cryotechniques; Freeze substitution; High pressure freezing; Skin; Structural artifacts

Indexed keywords

HYALIN; KERATIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DISSOCIATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GOLGI COMPLEX; HEMIDESMOSOME; HYPERBARISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; RIBOSOME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYOPRESERVATION; ELECTRONS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FREEZING; GOLGI APPARATUS; KERATINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE; RIBOSOMES; SKIN;

EID: 4043090575     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-6705.2004.00180.x     Document Type: Article

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