A novel quantitative flow cytometric method for measuring glucocorticoid receptor (GR) in cell lines: Correlation with the biochemical determination of GR

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 324, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 110-119

  Voutsas, Ioannis F ^a   Gritzapis, Angelos D ^a   Alexis, Michael N ^b   Katsanou, Efrosini S ^b   Perez, Sonia ^a   Baxevanis, Constantin N ^a   Papamichail, Michael ^a  

^a SAINT SAVVAS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antigen quantitation; Flow cytometry; GR; MESF

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOASSAY; T CELL LEUKEMIA;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; K562 CELLS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID;

EID: 34347256361     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2007.05.007     Document Type: Article

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