Lamellar body ultrastructure revisited: High-pressure freezing and cryo-electron microscopy of vitreous sections

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 319-326

  Vanhecke, Dimitri ^a   Herrmann, Gudrun ^a   Graber, Werner ^a   Hillmann Marti, Therese ^a   Mühlfeld, Christian ^b   Studer, Daniel ^a   Ochs, Matthias ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

CEMOVIS; High pressure freezing; Lamellar body; Lung; Surfactant

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FREEZING; FROZEN SECTION; HIGH PRESSURE FREEZING; LAMELLAR BODY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOULTRAMICROTOMY; FLUOROCARBONS; FREEZE SUBSTITUTION; FREEZING; ICE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PRESSURE; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY SURFACTANTS; SECRETORY VESICLES; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE FIXATION; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 78149465366     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-010-0736-4     Document Type: Article

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