Vitrification of thick samples for soft X-ray cryo-tomography by high pressure freezing

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 77-81

  Weiner, Allon ^a   Kapishnikov, Sergey ^a   Shimoni, Eyal ^a   Cordes, Sandra ^a   Guttmann, Peter ^b   Schneider, Gerd ^b   Elbaum, Michael ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electron cryo microscopy; High pressure freezing; Plasmodium; Tomography; Water window; X ray microscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FREEZING; HIGH PRESSURE FREEZING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LABORATORY DEVICE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SOFT X RAY CRYOTOMOGRAPHY; THICKNESS; TOMOGRAPHY; VITRIFICATION;

CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENTAMOEBA; ERYTHROCYTES; ETHANE; FREEZING; HUMANS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESSURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY; VITRIFICATION;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA);

EID: 84870894574     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2012.10.005     Document Type: Article

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