Quantification of green fluorescent protein by in vivo imaging, PCR, and flow cytometry: Comparison of transgenic strains and relevance for fetal cell microchimerism

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 11-118

  Fujiki, Yutaka ^a,b   Tao, Kai ^a   Bianchi, Diana W ^a   Giel Moloney, Maryann ^a   Leiter, Andrew B ^c   Johnson, Kirby L ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

EGFP; Methodology; Microchimerism; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; FETUS CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROCHIMERISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL LINEAGE; CHIMERA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CHIMERISM; FETUS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 43049085248     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20533     Document Type: Article

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