Microfluidic devices for studying chemotaxis and electrotaxis

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 489-497

  Li, Jing ^a   Lin, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE GAMMA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; CANCER CELL; CELL ASSAY; CELL DIVISION; CELL MIGRATION; CHEMOTAXIS; DEVICE; DICTYOSTELIUM; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRONICS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ELECTROTAXIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPY; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL MOVEMENT; CHEMOTAXIS; ELECTRICITY; MICROFLUIDICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 79960915736     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2011.05.002     Document Type: Review

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