Single-cell analysis and sorting using droplet-based microfluidics

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 870-891

  Mazutis, Linas ^a,b   Gilbert, John ^c   Ung, W Lloyd ^a   Weitz, David A ^a   Griffiths, Andrew D ^d   Heyman, John A ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c HabSel Inc   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BINDING ASSAY; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HYBRIDOMA CELL CULTURE; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT DYES; HYBRIDOMAS; MICE; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROFLUIDICS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84877057770     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.046     Document Type: Article

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