Chapter 4 Quantification of Structures and Gold Labeling in Transmission Electron Microscopy

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 88, Issue , 2008, Pages 59-82

  Lucocq, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CELLS; GOLD; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 46349104643     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(08)00404-4     Document Type: Review

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