Technologies for single-cell isolation

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 16897-16919

  Gross, Andre ^a,b   Schoendube, Jonas ^a,b   Zimmermann, Stefan ^a   Steeb, Maximilian ^a   Zengerle, Roland ^a,c   Koltay, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Cytena GmbH   (Germany)

^c Hahn Schickard   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flow cytometry; Laser microdissection; Limiting dilution; Microfluidics; Single cell analysis; Single cell handling; Single cell separation; Single cell technologies

Indexed keywords

APPLIED RESEARCH; CELL ISOLATION; CELL VIABILITY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LAB ON A CHIP; LASER MICRODISSECTION; MANUAL CELL PICKING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROFLUIDICS; PATENT; RANDOM SEEDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CELL SEPARATION; MARKETING; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CELL SEPARATION; HUMANS; MARKETING; PATENTS AS TOPIC; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84937947663     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms160816897     Document Type: Review

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