Miniaturizing the Comet Assay with 3D Vertical Comets

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 26-34

  Baert, Philippe ^a   Van Oostveldt, Patrick ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Dept of Molecular Biotechnology ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Confocal laser scanning microscopy; DNA damage; Single cell gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COMET ASSAY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DNA DAMAGE; FIBROBLAST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0344306328     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.10006     Document Type: Article

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