Telomere Length Measurements in Leukocyte Subsets by Automated Multicolor Flow-FISH

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-6

  Baerlocher, Gabriela M ^a,c   Lansdorp, Peter M ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automation; Multicolor flow fluorescence in situ hybridization; Telomere; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MEASUREMENT; MULTICOLOR FLOW FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; TELOMERE; THYMUS;

EID: 0142205623     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.10064     Document Type: Article

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