Probing the CNS Microvascular Endothelium by Immune-Guided Laser-Capture Microdissection Coupled to Quantitative RT-PCR

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 755, Issue , 2011, Pages 385-394

  Murugesan, Nivetha ^a   Macdonald, Jennifer ^a   Ge, Shujun ^a   Pachter, Joel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

BBB; Endothelial cell; Heterogeneity; LCM; qRT PCR

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LASER; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICRODISSECTION; MICROVASCULATURE; MOUSE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE FIXATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CRYOPRESERVATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LASERS; MICE; MICRODISSECTION; MICROVESSELS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 79960957695     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-163-5_32     Document Type: Chapter

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