Introduction ................................................. XVII
Abbreviations ................................................. XIX
Chapter 1 ....................................................... 1
Vitreous Water
Jacques Dubochet
Part I - Cryo-Fixation Methods
Chapter 2 ...................................................... 17
Slam-Freezing, Metal-Mirror Freezing
Danièle Spehner and Ludwig Edelmann
Chapter 3 ...................................................... 49
Plunge-Freezing (Holey Carbon Method)
Sacha De Carlo
Chapter 4 ...................................................... 69
Controlled Vitrification
Peter M. Frederik, Felix de Haas and Marc M.H. Storms
Chapter 5 ..................................................... 101
BAL-TEC HPM 010 High-Pressure Freezing Machine
Andres Kaech
Chapter 6 ..................................................... 129
High-Pressure Freezing LEICA EMPACT
Dimitri Vanhecke and Daniel Studer
Part II - Cryo-Electron Microscopy
Chapter 7 ..................................................... 159
Frozen-Hydrated Macromolecules for Structural Analysis
Corinne Crucifix, Gabor Papai and Patrick Schultz
Chapter 8 ..................................................... 191
Two-Dimensional Crystals
Patrick Bron and Janet Vonck
Chapter 9 ..................................................... 219
Cryo-Negative Staining
Sacha De Carlo
Chapter 10 .................................................... 237
Vitrification of Dynamic Microtubules
Isabelle Arnal, Marine Malleter and Denis Chrétien
Chapter 11 .................................................... 259
CEMOVIS: Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Vitreous Sections
Jacques Dubochet, Ashraf Al-Amoudi, Cédric Вouchet-
Marquis, Mikhail Eltsov and Benoît Zuber
Chapter 12 .................................................... 291
Cryo-Electron Tomography
Andrew Leis, Manuela Gruska and Wolfgang Baumeister
Part III - Low-Temperature Embedding
Chapter 13 .................................................... 319
Freeze-Substitution
Bruno M. Humbel
Chapter 14 .................................................... 343
Cryo-Fixation, Freeze-Substitution, Rehydration and Tokuyasu
Cryo-Sectioning
York-Dieter Stierhof, Elly van Donselaar, Heinz Schwarz,
Bruno M. Humbel
Chapter 15 .................................................... 367
Freeze-Drying and Embedding of Biological Material
Ludwig Edelmann
Part IV - Freeze-Fracture and Metal Shadowing
Chapter 16 .................................................... 391
The Shadow of Hydrated Biological Specimens
Daniel Thomas
Chapter 17 .................................................... 411
Cryo-Fracture of Self-Assembled Systems in Organic Solvent
Marc Schmutz and Philippe J. Mésini
Part V - Analysis
Chapter 18 .................................................... 433
Progressive Lowering of Temperature for Immunolabeling and
in situ Hybridization
Annie Cavalier and Danièle Spehner
Chapter 19 .................................................... 467
Cryo-Sectioning According to Tokuyasu
Bruno M. Humbel and York-Dieter Stierhof
Chapter 20 .................................................... 499
Cryo-Preparation Procedures for Elemental Imaging by SIMS
and EFTEM
Christian Bordat and Jean-Luc Guerquin-Kern
Chapter 21 .................................................... 537
Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy
Heinz Schwarz and Bruno M. Humbel
Chapter 22 .................................................... 567
SDS-digested Freeze-Fracture Replica Labeling (SDS-FRL)
Yugo Fukazawa, Miwako Masugi-Tokita, Etsuko Tarusawa,
Akari Hagiwara and Ryuichi Shigemoto
Chapter 23 .................................................... 587
Immunolabeling of Ultrathin Sections with Enlarged 1 nm Gold
or QDots
York-Dieter Stierhof
Chapter 24 .................................................... 617
3-D Electron Tomography of Cells and Organelles
Willie J.C. Geerts, Bruno M. Humbel and Arie J. Verkleij
Final Considerations .......................................... 651
Hellmuth Sitte
Glossary ...................................................... 657
Index ......................................................... 673
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