Quantitative time-lapse fluorescence microscopy in single cells

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 25, Issue , 2009, Pages 301-327

  Muzzey, Dale ^a,b   Van Oudenaarden, Alexander ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated image analysis; Cell to cell variability; Fluorescent proteins; Lineage construction; Microfluidic devices

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

AUTOMATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CUSTODY; EVOLUTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FISH; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECKLE MICROSCOPY; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NOISE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TIME LAPSE FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; TIME PERCEPTION; WHOLE CELL; WORM; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 70350230233     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.042308.113408     Document Type: Review

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