Coating of coverslips with glow-discharged carbon promotes cell attachment and spreading probably due to carboxylic groups

Cytometry

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 295-299

  Stap, Jan ^a   Van Marie, Jan ^a   Van Veen, Henk A ^a   Aten, Jacob A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbon; Cell attachment; Cell spreading; Cell synchronization; Coating; Confocal microscopy; Fibroblasts; Fluorescence microscopy

Indexed keywords

ALCIAN BLUE; CARBON; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; COLLAGEN TYPE 5; GELATIN; POLYLYSINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SPREADING; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IRRADIATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CARBON; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE; CELL MOVEMENT; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; POLYSTYRENES; RATS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034175675     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(20000401)39:4<295::AID-CYTO7>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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