Tomato lectin histochemistry for microglial visualization

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1041, Issue , 2013, Pages 261-279

  Villacampa, Nàdia ^a   Almolda, Beatriz ^a   González, Berta ^a   Castellano, Bernardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Double labelling; Fluorescence; Histochemistry; Microglia; Tomato lectin; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

LECTIN; PARAFFIN; TOMATO LECTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TOMATO; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLANT LECTINS; RATS;

EID: 84880122334     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-520-0_23     Document Type: Article

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