Electron microscopy of flatworms. Standard and cryo-preparation methods

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 96, Issue C, 2010, Pages 307-330

  Salvenmoser, Willi ^a   Egger, Bernhard ^a   Achatz, Johannes G ^a   Ladurner, Peter ^a   Hess, Michael W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BOOK; CRYOPRESERVATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FREEZE DRYING; METHODOLOGY; PLATYHELMINTH; TISSUE FIXATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FREEZE SUBSTITUTION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PLATYHELMINTHS; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 77956996180     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(10)96014-7     Document Type: Book

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