High-pressure freezing for scanning transmission electron tomography analysis of cellular organelles

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 931, Issue , 2012, Pages 525-535

  Walther, Paul ^a   Schmid, Eberhard ^a   Höhn, Katharina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Freeze substitution; High pressure freezing; Sapphire discs; Scanning transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; FREEZE DRYING; FREEZING; IMAGE DISPLAY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84934435038     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-56-4_28     Document Type: Article

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