ISH-IEM: A sensitive method to detect endogenous mRNAs at the ultrastructural level

Nature Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 678-687

  Herpers, Bram ^a,b   Xanthakis, Despina ^a   Rabouille, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GURKEN PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; MESSENGER RNA; OSKAR PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; GENE; GENETICS; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; GENES, INSECT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; OOCYTES; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

EID: 77954067736     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2010.12     Document Type: Article

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