Duplex polymerase chain reaction quantification of human cells in a murine background

Stem Cells

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 828-833

  Pelz, Oliver ^a   Wu, Minyao ^a   Nikolova, Teodora ^b   Kamprad, Manja ^c   Ackermann, Manuela ^c   Egger, Dietmar ^d   Emmrich, Frank ^c   Wobus, Anna M ^b   Cross, Michael ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d VITA 34 GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chimera; Human; Metastasis; Mouse; Quantification; Species specific polymerase chain reaction; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEM CELL; TARGET CELL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SEPARATION; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FETAL BLOOD; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; PEPTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 20344398187     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2004-0206     Document Type: Article

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