Microfluidic single-cell real-time PCR for comparative analysis of gene expression patterns

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 829-838

  Sanchez Freire, Veronica ^a   Ebert, Antje D ^a   Kalisky, Tomer ^a   Quake, Stephen R ^a   Wu, Joseph C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SELF RENEWAL; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MICROFLUIDICS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE CELL QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDICS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859602728     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.021     Document Type: Article

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