Profiling metabolites and peptides in single cells

Nature Methods

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages S20-S29

  Rubakhin, Stanislav S ^a   Romanova, Elena V ^a   Nemes, Peter ^a   Sweedler, Jonathan V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN;

CELL COMPOSITION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL ISOLATION; CELL METABOLISM; CELL SEPARATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMAN; LAB ON A CHIP; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITE; METABOLOME; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TARGET CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL SEPARATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953267923     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1549     Document Type: Article

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