Digital microfluidic immunocytochemistry in single cells

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ng, Alphonsus H C ^a,b   Dean Chamberlain, M ^a,b,c   Situ, Haozhong ^a,b   Lee, Victor ^b   Wheeler, Aaron R ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry ^*  (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE B; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR;

AUTOMATION; BLOOD; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIGITIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INNOVATION; PROTEIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; 3T3 CELL LINE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CELL LINE; DEVICES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MCF-7 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDICS; MOUSE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MCF-7 CELLS; MICE; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROFLUIDICS; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84932621306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8513     Document Type: Article

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