Advances in fluorescent tracking of nucleic acids in living cells

BioTechniques

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 489-496

  Dirks, Roeland W ^a   Tanke, Hans J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; DNA SEQUENCES; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MICROSCOPES;

CHROMATINS; LIVE-CELL IMAGING; RNA SEQUENCES;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

BINDING PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; RNA; DNA; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CHROMATIN; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LACTOSE OPERON; REVIEW; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; CELL FUNCTION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RNA PROBE; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; DNA; DNA PROBES; FLUORESCENT DYES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RNA; RNA PROBES;

EID: 33646847806     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000112121     Document Type: Review

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