A negative stain for electron microscopic tomography

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 331-335

  Fera, Andrea ^a   Farrington, Jane E ^b   Zimmerberg, Joshua ^b   Reese, Thomas S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

back projection method; individual molecule imaging; influenza virus; native state imaging; negative staining; tomography

Indexed keywords

COLORING AGENT; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TUNGSTEN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; STAINING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLORING AGENTS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; STAINING AND LABELING; TUNGSTEN; VIRAL PROTEINS;

INFLUENZA A VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 84859113152     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927611012797     Document Type: Article

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