A quantitative assay for intercellular aggregation

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 180-189

  Neelamegham, Sriram ^a,b   Zygourakis, Kyriacos ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Digital image analysis; Homotypic; Lymphocyte; Video microscopy; 1 Integrin

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; AGGLOMERATION; ALGORITHMS; BIOASSAY; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KINETIC THEORY OF GASES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MORPHOLOGY;

INTERCELLULAR AGGREGATION; LYMPHOCYTES; VIDEO MICROSCOPY;

CELLS;

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; MICROSCOPY; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

NASA DISCIPLINE CELL BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

CELL AGGREGATION; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO;

EID: 0031026662     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02738549     Document Type: Article

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