Direct cell lysis for single-cell gene expression profiling

Frontiers in Oncology

Volumn 3 NOV, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Svec, David ^a,b   Andersson, Daniel ^c   Pekny, Milos ^c   Sjöback, Robert ^b   Kubista, Mikael ^a,b   Ståhlberg, Anders ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b TATAA Biocenter   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cell lysis; Direct lysis; DNA spike; Real time PCR; RNA purification; RNA spike; Single cell biology; Single cell gene expression

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DNA PURIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PURIFICATION; RNA STABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84891060427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2234943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2013.00274     Document Type: Article

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