Development of a simple, cost-effective, semi-correlative light and electron microscopy method to allow the immunoelectron localisation of non-uniformly distributed placental proteins

Placenta

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 223-227

  Viall, C A ^a   Holloway, H ^a   Chen, Q ^a,b   Stone, P R ^a,c   Chamley, L W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Gravida: National Centre for Growth and Development   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antiphospholipid antibody; Correlative microscopy; Electron microscopy; Immunoelectron; Placenta; Syncytiotrophoblast

Indexed keywords

ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY; CORRELATIVE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOELECTRON; PLACENTA; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84894443198     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: 15323102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2014.01.005     Document Type: Article

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