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Fundamental Technical Elements of Freeze-fracture/Freeze-etch in Biological Electron Microscopy

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11:17 min

September 11th, 2014

DOI :

10.3791/51694-v

September 11th, 2014


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Freeze fracture

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0:05

Title

2:15

Freezing and Storage of Specimens in Advance of Freeze-fracture

4:43

Operation of the Freeze-fracture Instrument and Specimen Processing

8:45

Results: Structures Revealed by Freeze-fracture

10:28

Conclusion

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