Single cells as experimentation units in lab-on-a-chip devices

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 55-62

  Le Gac, Séverine ^a   van den Berg, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAB-IN-A-CELL; LAB-ON-A-CHIP; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; LIFE-SCIENCES; PRODUCTION UNITS; REPRODUCTION TECHNIQUES; SIGNALING PATHWAYS; SINGLE CELLS;

CONVOLUTION;

EXPERIMENTS;

NANOCHANNEL;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMEDICINE; CELL FUSION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MANIPULATION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SELECTION; CYTOLOGY; CYTOLYSIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LAB ON A CHIP; MATERIALS HANDLING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TECHNOLOGY;

CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES;

EID: 74049137840     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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