Serial block face scanning electron microscopy for the study of cardiac muscle ultrastructure at nanoscale resolutions

Current Therapeutic Research - Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 76, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-11

  Pinali, Christian ^a   Kitmitto, Ashraf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dyad; Sarcoplasmic reticulum; Serial block face scanning electron microscopy; Three dimensional; Transverse tubules

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; FREEZE FRACTURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MORPHOLOGY; NANOANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SERIAL BLOCK FACE SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STAINING; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANIMAL; TISSUE FIXATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MYOCARDIUM; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84907560456     PISSN: 0011393X     EISSN: 18790313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2014.08.010     Document Type: Review

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