How to operate a cryo-electron microscope

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 481, Issue C, 2010, Pages 231-249

  Sun, Jingchuan ^a   Li, Huilin ^a,b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

LIQUID NITROGEN;

BOOK; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; IMAGING; INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; THICKNESS; VIBRATION; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 77957232804     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(10)81010-9     Document Type: Chapter

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