Flow cytometric measurement of telomere length

Communications in Clinical Cytometry

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 159-164

  Lauzon, Wallace ^a   Dardon, Jaime Sanchez ^b   Cameron, D William ^a,b,c   Badley, Andrew D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flow cytometry; Flow fluorescent in situ hybridization; Fluorescent in situ hybridization; Peptide nucleic acid; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGING; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STEM CELL; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; DNA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEIC ACID PROBES; TELOMERE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0034659521     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0320(20000615)42:3<159::AID-CYTO1>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Review

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