Immunolabeling artifacts and the need for live-cell imaging

Nature Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 152-158

  Schnell, Ulrike ^a   Dijk, Freark ^a   Sjollema, Klaas A ^a   Giepmans, Ben N G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC SOLVENT;

ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTIFACT; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVE CELL IMAGING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ALDEHYDES; ARTIFACTS; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELLS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; PROTEINS;

EID: 84856427183     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1855     Document Type: Review

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