Advantages of indium-tin oxide-coated glass slides in correlative scanning electron microscopy applications of uncoated cultured cells

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 233, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 353-363

  Pluk, H ^a   Stokes, D J ^b   Lich, B ^b   Wieringa, B ^a   Fransen, J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscattered electron imaging; Conductive glass slides; Correlative microscopy; Fluorescence light microscopy; Indium tin oxide; Mouse embryonic fibroblasts; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CELL CULTURE; ELECTRONS; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GLASS SUBSTRATES; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; ITO GLASS; MAMMALS; PROTEINS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TIN OXIDES;

BACKSCATTERED ELECTRON IMAGING; CONDUCTIVE GLASS; CONDUCTIVE GLASS SLIDE; CORRELATIVE MICROSCOPIES; EMBRYONIC FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCENCE LIGHT MICROSCOPY; GLASS SLIDES; INDIUM TIN OXIDE COATED GLASS; INDIUM-TIN OXIDE; MOUSE EMBRYONIC FIBROBLAST;

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

INDIUM TIN OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 61449193235     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2009.03140.x     Document Type: Article

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