Rapidly excised and cryofixed rat tissue

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 96, Issue C, 2010, Pages 513-527

  Vanhecke, Dimitri ^a   Graber, Werner ^a   Studer, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOPSY; BOOK; BRAIN; CRYOPRESERVATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FREEZE DRYING; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE; PRESSURE; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY; BRAIN; CRYOPRESERVATION; FREEZE SUBSTITUTION; HISTOCYTOLOGICAL PREPARATION TECHNIQUES; LIVER; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUSCLES; PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 77957005458     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(10)96021-4     Document Type: Book

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