Correlated light and electron microscopy: Ultrastructure lights up!

Nature Methods

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 503-513

  De Boer, Pascal ^a   Hoogenboom, Jacob P ^b   Giepmans, Ben N G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CORRELATED LIGHT MICROSCOPY AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBEDDING; FIDUCIAL MARKER; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GAP JUNCTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTOOXIDATION; POINT MUTATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; CELLS; PROCEDURES; STAINING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 84930159375     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.3400     Document Type: Review

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