Cellular Deconstruction: Finding Meaning in Individual Cell Variation

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 569-578

  Eberwine, James ^a   Kim, Junhyong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological constraints; Phenotype; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; RNA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MAMMAL CELL; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; STOICHIOMETRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84942086670     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2015.07.004     Document Type: Review

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