Fabrication and use of microenvironment microarrays (MEArrays)

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 68, 2012, Pages

  Lin, Chun Han ^a,b   Lee, Jonathan K ^a   Labarge, Mark A ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biochemistry; Biophysics; Cell culture; Cellular Biology; Functional cell based assay; Issue 68; MEArray; Microarray; Microenvironment; Molecular Biology; PDMS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868273919     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/4152     Document Type: Article

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