Establishment of an optimised protocol for a Golgi-electron microscopy method based on a Golgi-Cox staining procedure with a commercial kit

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 103-109

  Koyama, Yoshihisa ^a   Nishida, Tomoki ^b   Tohyama, Masaya ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Golgi Cox staining; Golgi EM method; Ultrahigh voltage electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

GLUTARALDEHYDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GOLGI STAIN; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GOLGI-COX STAINING; GOLGI-EM METHOD; ULTRAHIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NEURONS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SILVER STAINING; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84879750960     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2013.05.004     Document Type: Article

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