Quantification of miRNA Abundance in Single Cells Using Locked Nucleic Acid-FISH and Enzyme-Labeled Fluorescence

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 680, Issue , 2011, Pages 77-88

  Lu, Jing ^a   Tsourkas, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

enzyme labeled fluorescence (ELF); fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH); locked nucleic acid (LNA); miRNA; single molecule detection

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CELL; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CELLS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICRORNAS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; NUCLEIC ACID PROBES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 79953153834     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-901-7_5     Document Type: Chapter

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