Quantification of telomere length by FISH and laser scanning cytometry

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6859, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mahoney, John E ^a   Sahin, Ergun ^a   Jaskelioff, Mariela ^a   Chin, Lynda ^a   DePinho, Ronald A ^a   Protopopov, Alexei I ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; fluorescent in situ hybridization; laser scanning cytometry; telomeres quantification

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DIODE LASERS; DNA DAMAGES; EMPTY VECTOR; FLUORESCENT IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HE-NE LASERS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; INDIVIDUAL CELLS; LASER SCANNING CYTOMETRY; MODEL ORGANISMS; MOUSE CELLS; SOFTWARE UPDATES; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRONG CORRELATION; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE LENGTH; TELOMERES; TELOMERES QUANTIFICATION; TRANSFECTANTS; VALIDATED METHODS;

BIOMOLECULES; CELL CULTURE; FLUORESCENCE; HISTOLOGY; LASER APPLICATIONS; SCANNING; SECURITY OF DATA;

CHROMOSOMES;

EID: 78650191440     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.763858     Document Type: Conference Paper

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