TaqMan®-based quantification of invasive cells in the chick embryo metastasis assay

BioTechniques

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 940-946

  Van Der Horst, Edward Htun ^a,d   Leupold, Jörg H ^b   Schubbert, Rainer ^c   Ullrich, Axel ^d   Allgayer, Heike ^b  

^a U3Pharma   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Medigenomix   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; TUMORS;

CHICK EMBRYONIC METASTASIS (CEM); INVASIVE CELLS; TUMOR CELLS;

CELLS;

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CELL ASSAY; CELL COUNT; CHORIOALLANTOIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METASTASIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY; TUMOR CELL; ZYGOTE; ALU SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHICK EMBRYO; COLON TUMOR; EVALUATION; GENETICS; MELANOMA; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

DNA;

ALU ELEMENTS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHICK EMBRYO; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MICE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 10044232827     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/04376st02     Document Type: Article

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