Quantification of zinc finger nuclease-associated toxicity

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 649, Issue , 2010, Pages 237-245

  Cornu, Tatjana I ^a,b   Cathomen, Toni ^a,b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

H2AX; cell survival assay; cytotoxicity; genotoxicity; toxicity; Zinc finger nucleases

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; ENDONUCLEASES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 77957756454     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-753-2_14     Document Type: Article

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