Labeling of Ultrathin Resin Sections for Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 111, Issue , 2012, Pages 75-93

  Fabig, Gunar ^a,b   Kretschmar, Susanne ^a   Weiche, Susanne ^a   Eberle, Dominic ^a   Ader, Marius ^a   Kurth, Thomas ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM); Fluorescence; Lowicryl K4M; PLT embedding; Protein A gold; Retina; Testis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864386796     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-416026-2.00005-4     Document Type: Chapter

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