Freeze Etching

Known as: Etching, Freeze, Freeze-etching 
A replica technique in which cells are frozen to a very low temperature and cracked with a knife blade to expose the interior surfaces of the cells… (More)
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Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Ultrastructure of the intima in WHHL and cholesterol-fed rabbit aortas prepared by ultra-rapid freezing and freeze-etching.
Intima from aortas of normal Watanabe Heritable Hyperlipidemic (WHHL) and cholesterol-fed (10 days - 3 months) rabbits were… (More)
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1980
1980
Cryofixation without cryoprotectants. Freeze substitution and freeze etching of an insect olfactory receptor.
Antennae of the silk moth, Bombyx mori, were frozen by immersion into propane at -180 degrees C, and further processed by (a… (More)
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1977
1977
Rotary replication for freeze-etching
Rotary replication has been adapted to freeze-etching and evaluated using T4 polyheads, erythrocyte ghosts, and chloroplast… (More)
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1973
1973
Insulin release by emiocytosis: demonstration with freeze-etching technique.
The technique of freeze-etching for electron microscopy applied to isolated islets of Langerhans has permitted a successful… (More)
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Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Metabolic Coupling, Ionic Coupling and Cell Contacts
Observations using electron microscopy and freeze-etching techniques show that both metabolic coupling and ionic coupling in… (More)
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1971
1971
Recent progress in the freeze-etching technique.
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The freeze-etching technique must be improved if structures at the molecular size level are to be seen. The limitations of the… (More)
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1971
1971
Improved cryofixation applicable to freeze etching.
Freeze etching of solute model systems (e.g., glycerol or ferritin solutions) demonstrates that cryofixation can introduce… (More)
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Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
Membrane splitting in freeze-ethching. Covalently bound ferritin as a membrane marker.
The freeze-etch technique was used to observe red blood cell ghosts labeled on both surfaces with covalently bound ferritin… (More)
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1970
1970
Structure of Escherichia coli after freeze-etching.
Survival of Escherichia coli, quick-frozen under conditions similar to those employed for freeze-etching, is close to 100%. For… (More)
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Highly Cited
1963
Highly Cited
1963
FINE STRUCTURE IN FROZEN-ETCHED YEAST CELLS
The freeze-etching technique, which is a special kind of freeze-drying, allows electron microscopic investigation of cells and… (More)
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