Advanced laboratory techniques for sample processing and immunolabeling using microwave radiation

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 157-164

  Ferris, Adam M ^a   Giberson, Richard T ^b   Sanders, Mark A ^c   Day, Jonathan R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ted Pella Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Cell culture; Double labeling; Formaldehyde fixation; GFP expression; HeLa cells; Hippocampus; Immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEATING; HELA CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TISSUE FIXATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ASTROCYTES; CELL SIZE; CELLS, CULTURED; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROWAVES; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 68349110795     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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