Development of a Plastic Embedding Method for Large-Volume and Fluorescent-Protein-Expressing Tissues

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Yang, Zhongqin ^a   Hu, Bihe ^a   Zhang, Yuhui ^a   Luo, Qingming ^a   Gong, Hui ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 HYDROXYETHYL METHACRYLATE; FLUORESCENT DYE; FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYDROXYPROPYL METHACRYLATE; LR WHITE; MEQUINOL; RESIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNICRYL;

ALKALINITY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOLOGY; INCUBATION TIME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PH; POLYMERIZATION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION OPTIMIZATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TISSUE PREPARATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RESINS, SYNTHETIC; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE EMBEDDING;

EID: 84875940391     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060877     Document Type: Article

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