High-pressure freezing: Current state and future prospects

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1117, Issue , 2014, Pages 151-171

  Kaech, Andres ^a   Ziegler, Urs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cryo sectioning; Freeze fracturing; Freeze substitution; High pressure freezing; Monolayer cell cultures; Sapphire disc

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; LIQUID NITROGEN; POLYMER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FREEZE FRACTURE; FREEZING; GEOMETRY; HIGH PRESSURE FREEZING; HYPERBARISM; IMMERSION; LABORATORY DEVICE; MACHINE; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSPENSION;

CELLS, CULTURED; CRYOPRESERVATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PRESSURE;

EID: 84934437493     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-776-1_8     Document Type: Article

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