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Films Used in Cryo-Microscopy
Meeting Abstracts, Newsletters and Bulletins Concerning Films
Used in Cryo-Microscopy
Holey Films
Meeting Abstracts, Newsletters and Bulletins Concerning Holey
Films
Other Film Types
Meeting Abstracts, Newsletters and Bulletins Concerning Other
Film Types
Hayat, M. A. (1970) Fixation, embedding, sectioning, staining and support films. Princ. Tech. Elec. Microsc. (M. A. Hayat, ed.) 1:323-332.
Hayat, M. A. (1986) Basic Techniques for Transmission Electron Microscopy, Academic Press, Inc., N. Y., pp.265-284.
Hayat, M. A. (1990) Negative Staining, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., N. Y. pp.177-223
Taylor, K. A. and R. M. Glaeser (1973) Hydrophilic support films of controlled thickness and composition. Rev. Sci. Instr. 44:1546-1547.
Murray, J. M. and R. Ward (1987) Preparation of holey carbon films suitable for cryo-electron microscopy. J. Elect. Micros. Tech. 5:285-290.
Toyoshima, C. (1989) On the use of holey grids in electron crystallography. Ultramicrosc. 30:439-444.
Cyrklaff, M., M. Adrian and J. Dubochet (1990) Evaporation during preparation of unsupported thin vitrified aqueous layers for cryo-electron microscopy. J Elec. Microsc. Tech. 16:351-355.
Booy, F. P. and J. B. Pawley (1993) Cryo-crinkling: What happens to carbon films on copper grids at low temperature. Ultramicrosc. 48:273-280.
Meeting Abstracts, Newsletters and Bulletins Concerning Films Used in Cryo-Microscopy
Taylor, K. A. and R. M. Glaeser (1973) A method for maintaining specimen hydration by sandwiching between thin films. Elec. Microsc. Soc. Am. Proc. 31:342-343.
Drahos, V. and A. Delong (1960) A simple method for obtaining perforated supporting membranes for electron microscopy. Nature 186:104.
Harris, W. J. (1962) Holey films for electron microscopy. Nature 196:499-500.
Fukami, A. and K. Adachi (1965) A new method of preparation of a self-perforated micro plastic grid and its application. J. Elec. Microsc. 14:112-118.
Johnston, H. S. and O. Reid (1971) An improved method for preparing perforated carbon films for electron microscopy using ultrasonic vibration. J. Microsc. 94:283-286.
Pease, D. C. (1975) Micronets for electron microscopy. Micron 6:85-92.
Baumeister, W. and J. Seredynski (1976) Preparation of perforated films with predeterminable hole size distributions. Micron 7:49-54.
Gannon, J. R. and R. J. D. Tilley (1976) A technique for preparing holey carbon films for high resolution electron microscopy. J. Microsc. 106:59-61.
Reichelt, R., T. Konig and G. Wangermann (1977) Preparation of micro-grids as specimen supports for high resolution electron microscopy. Micron 8:29-31.
Lunsdorf, H. and E. Spiess (1986) A rapid method of preparing perforated supporting foils for the thin carbon films used in high resolution transmission electron microscopy. J. Microsc. 144:211-213.
Meeting Abstracts, Newsletters and Bulletins Concerning Holey Films
Sjostrand, F. S. (1956) An improved method to prepare formvar nets for mounting thin sections for electron microscopy. First Europ. Reg. Conf. Elec. Microsc. (Stockholm) 120-121.
Elsner, P. R. (1971) A simple, reliable method for preparing perforated formvar films. Elec. Microsc. Soc. Amer. Proc. 29:460-461.
Watson, M. L. (1955) The use of carbon support films to support tissue sections for electron microscopy. JBBC 1:183-184.
Savdir, S. (1963) A simple method of producing formvar films for supporting electron microscope sections on grids. ST 10:12-13.
Harris, W. W. (1970). Reducing the effect of substrate noise in electron images of biological objects. Some Biological Techniques in Electron Microscopy. (Ed. D. F. Parsons) Academic Press. 147-163.
Dubochet, J. and E. Kellenberger (1972) Selective adsorption of particles to the supporting film and its consequences on particle counts in electron microscopy. Microscopica Acta 72:119-130.
Williams, R. C. and R. M. Glaeser (1972) Ultrathin carbon support films for electron microscopy. Science 175:1000-1001.
Oliver, R. M. (1973) Negative stain electron microscopy of protein macromolecules. Methods in Enzym. 27:639-665.
Taylor, K. A. and R. M. Glaeser (1973) Hydrophilic support films of controlled thickness and composition. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 44:1546-1547.
de Boer, J. and G. J. Brakenhoff (1974) A simple method for carbon film thickness determination. J. Ultrast. Res. 49:224-227.
Johansen, B. V. (1974) Bright field electron microscopy of biological specimens. II. Preparation of ultra-thin carbon support films. Micron 5:209-221.
Johansen, B. V. (1975) Bright field electron microscopy of biological specimens. IV. Ultrasonic exfoliated graphite as 'low-noise' support films. Micron 6:165-173.
Baumeister, W. and M. Hahn (1976) An improved method for preparing single crystal specimen supports: h(2)o(2) exfoliation of vermiculite. Micron 7:247-251.
Johansen, B. V. (1976) Bright field electron microscopy of biological specimens. VI. Signal-to-noise ratio in specimens prepared on amorphous carbon and graphite crystal supports. Micron 7:157-170.
Ronald, W. P., B. Schroeder, J. H. Tremaine and Y. C. Paliwal (1977) Distorted virus particles in electron microscopy: an artifact of grid films. Virology 76:416-419.
Williams, R. C. (1977) Use of polylysine for adsorption of nucleic acids and enzymes to electron microscope specimen films. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 74:2311-2315.
Iijima, S. (1977) Thin graphite support films for high resolution electron microscopy. Micron 8:41-46.
Tanaka, N. and K. Mihama (1977) Observations of ferritin particles by using BeO supporting films. J. Elec. Microsc. 26:75-85.
Dorignac, D., M. E. C. Maclachlan and B. Jouffrey (1979) Low-noise boron supports for high resolution electron microscopy. Ultramicrosc. 4:85-89.
Formanek, H. (1979) Preparation of hydrophilic, single crystalline supports of graphite oxide. Ultramicrosc. 4:227-232.
Handley, D. A. and B. R. Olsen (1979) Butvar B-98 as a thin support film. Ultramicrosc. 4:479-480.
Krakow, W. (1979) Computer modeling of high resolution transmission electron microscope images of the (001) au film surface. Ultramicrosc. 4:55-76.
Smith, P. R. (1979) A trough designed to facilitate the coating of electron microscope grids. Sci. Tools 26:51-52.
Cohen, H. and W. Chiu (1981) Accumulated dose dependence of support film contrast transfer function. Ultramicrosc. 6:335-342.
Dubochet, J. and M. Groom (1982) The mounting of macromolecules for electron microscopy with particular reference to surface phenomena and the treatment of support films by glow discharge. Adv. Opt. Elec. Microsc. 8:107-135.
Hough, P. V. C., I. A. Mastrangelo, J. S. Wall, J. F. Hainfeld, , M. N. Simon and J. L. Manley (1982) DNA-protein complexes spread on n(2)-discharged carbon film and characterized by molecular weight and its projected distribution. Nucleosome formation by an in vitro transcription system. J. Mol. Biol. 160:375-386.
Namork, E. and B. V. Johansen (1982) Surface activation of carbon film supports for biological electron microscopy. Ultramicrosc. 7:321-330.
Davison, E. and W. Colquhoun (1985) Ultrathin formvar support films for transmission electron microscopy. J. Elec. Microsc. Tech. 2:35-43.
Uzgiris, E. E. (1987) Imaging of proteins on phospholipid films. 5:36-43.
Lamvik, M. K., S. D. Davilla and L. L. Klatt (1989) Substrate properties affect the mass loss rate in collodion at liquid helium temperature. Ultramicrosc. 27:241-250.
Butt, H.-J., D. N. Wang, P. K. Hansma and W. Kuhlbrandt (1991) Effect of surface roughness of carbon support films on high-resolution electron diffraction of two-dimensional protein crystals. Ultramicrosc. 36:307-318.
Glaeser, R. M., A. Zilker, M. Radermacher, H. E. Gaub, T. Hartmann and W. Baumeister (1991) Interfacial energies and surface-tension forces involved in the preparation of thin, flat crystals of biological macromolecules for high-resolution electron microscopy. J. Microsc. 161:21-45.
Stoops, J. K., C. Momany, S. R. Ernst, R. M. Oliver, J. P. Schroeter, J.-P. Bretaudiere and M. L. Hackert (1991) Comparisons of the low-resolution structures of ornithine decarboxylase by electron microscopy and x-ray crystallography: The utility of methylamine tungstate stain and butvar support film in the study of macromolecules by transmission electron microscopy. J. Elec. Microsc. Tech. 18:157-166.
Glaeser, R. M. (1992) Specimen flatness of thin crystalline arrays: Influence of the substrate. Ultramicrosc. 46:33-43.
Schmutz, M., J. Lang, S. Graff and A. Brisson (1994) Defects of planarity of carbon films supported on electron microscope grids revealed by reflected light microscopy. J. Struct. Biol. 112:252-258.
Meeting Abstracts, Newsletters and Bulletins Concerning Other Film Types
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