Quantitative flow cytometry: Inter-laboratory variation

Cytometry

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 138-145

  Zenger, V E ^a   Vogt, R ^b   Mandy, F ^c   Schwartz, A ^d   Marti, G E ^a,e  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c LAB CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^d Carribean Microparticles ^*  (Puerto Rico)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody binding capacity; Calibration curve; Microbead standards; Molecular equivalent of soluble fluorochrome; Quantitative flow cytometry

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUOROCHROME; PHYCOERYTHRIN;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; FREEZE DRYING; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABORATORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; STANDARDIZATION;

FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MICROSPHERES; OBSERVER VARIATION;

EID: 0032190568     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19981001)33:2<138::AID-CYTO8>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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