Quality control study by the French Cytometry Association on flow cytometric DNA content and S-Phase fraction (S%)

Communications in Clinical Cytometry

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 32-39

  D'hautcourt, Jean Luc ^a   Spyratos, Frédérique ^b   Chassevent, Agnès ^c  

^a Clinique Saint Joseph   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE RENÉ HUGUENIN   (France)

^c CENTRE PAUL PAPIN   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer; DNA content; Flow cytometry; Interlabortory quality control; Proliferation

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FRANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDIZATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; QUALITY CONTROL; S PHASE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029988644     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19960315)26:1<32::AID-CYTO5>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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