Ultrastructural and nuclear antigen preservation after high-pressure freezing/freeze-substitution and low-temperature LR white embedding of HeLa cells

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1047-1052

  Strádalová, Vendula ^a   Gaplovská Kyselá, Katarína ^a   Hozák, Pavel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cryofixation; Freeze substitution; High pressure freezing; Immunogold labelling; LR White

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBEDDING; FEMALE; FREEZE DRYING; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LR WHITE EMBEDDING; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

ACRYLIC RESINS; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; CELL NUCLEUS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FREEZE SUBSTITUTION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PLASTIC EMBEDDING; PRESSURE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 54049097430     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-008-0504-x     Document Type: Article

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