Microfluidic approaches for cancer cell detection, characterization, and separation

Lab on a Chip

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1753-1767

  Chen, Jian ^a   Li, Jason ^b,c   Sun, Yu ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; BIOPHYSICS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL AFFINITY MICROCHROMATOGRAPHY; CELL SEPARATION; DEVICES; ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROELECTRODE; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 84860372570     PISSN: 14730197     EISSN: 14730189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2lc21273k     Document Type: Review

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