On-Chip Electroporation and Electrofusion for Single-Cell Engineering

Chemical Cytometry: Ultrasensitive Analysis of Single Cells

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 107-124

  Valero, Ana ^a   Van Den Berg, Albert ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cell electrofusion; Cell inactivation; Gene transfection; Pulsed electric field; Single cell electroporation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886347767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527629640.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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