Defining cell populations with single-cell gene expression profiling: Correlations and identification of astrocyte subpopulations

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Ståhlberg, Anders ^a,b   Andersson, Daniel ^a   Aurelius, Johan ^a   Faiz, Maryam ^a   Pekna, Marcela ^a   Kubista, Mikael ^b,c   Pekny, Milos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b TATAA Biocenter   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL SUBPOPULATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROSPHERE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE CELL GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICE; RNA, MESSENGER; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; STEM CELLS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 79952323055     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1182     Document Type: Article

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