No Need for Labels: The Autofluorescence of Leishmania tarentolae Mitochondria and the Necessity of Negative Controls

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Eckers, Elisabeth ^a   Deponte, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVOPROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; XENON;

ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CELL CULTURE; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FLAVOPROTEINS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOCHONDRIA; OPTICAL IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84867513472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047641     Document Type: Article

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