Quantitative imaging of protein interactions in the cell nucleus

BioTechniques

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 413-424

  Voss, Ty C ^a   Demarco, Ignacio A ^a   Day, Richard N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DIGITAL STORAGE; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PROTEINS;

CO-LOCALIZATION PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE LIFE TIME IMAGING MICROSCOPY (FLIM); FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER (FRET); MAMMALIAN CELL NUCLEUS;

CELLS;

CELL NUCLEUS; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; MICROSCOPY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 15244362074     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/05383RV01     Document Type: Review

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