Ultrastructural analysis of adult mouse neocortex comparing aldehyde perfusion with cryo fixation

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue AUGUST2015, 2015, Pages

  Korogod, Natalya ^a   Petersen, Carl C H ^a   Knott, Graham W ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; FIXATIVE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CRYOPRESERVATION; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; FOCUSED ION BEAM SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE ANALYSIS AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FREEZING; METABOLISM; PERFUSION; PROCEDURES; TISSUE FIXATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALDEHYDES; ANIMALS; FIXATIVES; FREEZING; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEOCORTEX; PERFUSION; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84940489065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.05793     Document Type: Article

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