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LOW‐TEMPERATURE PREPARATION TECHNIQUES FOR ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS BASED ON RAPID FREEZING WITH LIQUID HELIUM II*

1960; Wiley; Volume: 85; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1749-6632.1960.tb49990.x

1749-6632

H. Fernández‐Morán,

Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications

Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesVolume 85, Issue 2 p. 689-713 LOW-TEMPERATURE PREPARATION TECHNIQUES FOR ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS BASED ON RAPID FREEZING WITH LIQUID HELIUM II* Humberto Fernández-Morán, Humberto Fernández-Morán Mixter Laboratories for Electron Microscopy, Neurosurgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass., and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.Search for more papers by this author Humberto Fernández-Morán, Humberto Fernández-Morán Mixter Laboratories for Electron Microscopy, Neurosurgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass., and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.Search for more papers by this author First published: April 1960 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1960.tb49990.xCitations: 157 * The work reported in this paper was supported in part by Contract AT(30-1)-2278 from the Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D. 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