Laser capture microdissection, microarrays and the precise definition of a cancer cell

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 831-840

  Player, Audrey ^a   Barrett, J Carl ^a   Kawasaki, Ernest S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression profiling; Laser capture microdissection; Microarrays; Single cell analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

CANCER CELL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL TYPE; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; LASERS; MICRODISSECTION; NEOPLASMS; NEURONS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 8444252062     PISSN: 14737159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737159.4.6.831     Document Type: Review

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