Retrogradely transported fluorogold accumulates in lysosomes of neurons and is detectable ultrastructurally using post-embedding immuno-gold methods

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-47

  Persson, Stefan ^a   Havton, Leif A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Fluorogold; Immuno gold; Lysosome; Rat; Spinal cord; Ultrastructural

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD; GLUTARALDEHYDE; GLYCEROL; METHANOL; PARAFORMALDEHYDE; URANYL ACETATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL LABELING; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPROTECTION; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBEDDING; FEMALE; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; LOW TEMPERATURE; LYSOSOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON;

ANIMALS; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYSOSOMES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONAL TRACT-TRACERS; ORGANELLES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; STILBAMIDINES;

EID: 70349332460     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.07.017     Document Type: Article

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