Quantitative measurement of single cell dynamics

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 103-109

  Bakstad, Denise ^a   Adamson, Antony ^a   Spiller, David G ^a   White, Michael R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL BIOLOGY; CELL FATES; FLUORESCENT IMAGING; IN-VIVO; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PROTEIN TRANSLOCATION; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SINGLE CELLS; TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES;

CYTOLOGY; DYNAMICS; TISSUE;

CELLS;

ENZYME; EQFP650 PROTEIN; EQFP670 PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; REPORTER PROTEIN; RNA; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; SNARE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL FATE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MANIPULATION; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IN VIVO STUDY; INFRARED RADIATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MS2 BASED RNA IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW; RNA FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84856468675     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2011.11.007     Document Type: Review

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