Modern approaches for ultrastructural analysis of the zebrafish embryo

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 96, Issue C, 2010, Pages 425-442

  Schieber, Nicole L ^a   Nixon, Susan J ^a   Webb, Richard I ^a   Oorschot, Viola M J ^b   Parton, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BOOK; CRYOPRESERVATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; HISTOCYTOLOGICAL PREPARATION TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 77957000050     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(10)96018-4     Document Type: Book

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