Advanced correlative light/electron microscopy: Current methods and new developments using Tokuyasu cryosections

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1103-1112

  Cortese, Katia ^a,b   Diaspro, Alberto ^a,b   Tacchetti, Carlo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b FIRC INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Correlative light and electron microscopy; Cryosection; Electron microscopy; EM tomography; Immunofluorescence; Immunogold; Morphometry; Quantum dots; Tetracysteine biarsenical system

Indexed keywords

PEROXIDASE; QUANTUM DOT;

CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CORRELATIVE LIGHT AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FREEZING; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANIMAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; ULTRAMICROTOMY;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOULTRAMICROTOMY; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PEROXIDASE; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 73349108505     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/jhc.2009.954214     Document Type: Review

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