Cytokine quantitation: Technologies and applications

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4682-4695

  Sachdeva, Naresh ^a   Asthana, Deshratn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemiluminescence; Cytokines; ELISA; ELISPOT; Immunostaining; Microarray; Multi parameteric flow cytometry; Quantitation; RT PCR; Technologies

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; MESSENGER RNA;

DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; LUMINESCENCE; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVIEW;

CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LUMINESCENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 34347225102     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/2418     Document Type: Review

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