Tissue section AFM: In situ ultrastructural imaging of native biomolecules

Matrix Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 254-260

  Graham, Helen K ^a   Hodson, Nigel W ^a   Hoyland, Judith A ^a   Millward Sadler, Sarah J ^a   Garrod, David ^a   Scothern, Anthea ^a   Griffiths, Christopher E M ^a   Watson, Rachel E B ^a   Cox, Thomas R ^b   Erler, Janine T ^b   Trafford, Andrew W ^a   Sherratt, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Collagen fibrils; Elastic fibres; Native biomolecules; Tissue cryo sections

Indexed keywords

COLLAGENASE; FIBRILLAR COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DESMOSOME; ELASTIC FIBER; FERRET; HEART MITOCHONDRION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUNG; MACROMOLECULE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOSE MUCOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEEP; SKIN; TISSUE SECTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CARTILAGE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HISTOCYTOLOGICAL PREPARATION TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE;

EID: 77952542131     PISSN: 0945053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2010.01.008     Document Type: Article

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