Opening windows into the cell: Focused-ion-beam milling for cryo-electron tomography

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 771-777

  Villa, Elizabeth ^a   Schaffer, Miroslava ^a   Plitzko, Jürgen M ^a,b   Baumeister, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; CELL ASSAY; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; FOCUSED ION BEAM MILLING; FREEZING; GEOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WORKFLOW;

CELLS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84885847209     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2013.08.006     Document Type: Review

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