Development of microfluidic systems enabling high-throughput single-cell protein characterization

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Fan, Beiyuan ^a   Li, Xiufeng ^a   Chen, Deyong ^a   Peng, Hongshang ^b   Wang, Junbo ^a   Chen, Jian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b MINZU UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

High throughput; Microfluidics; Protein characterization; Single cell analysis

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUIDIC DEVICES; PROTEINS; THROUGHPUT;

ABSOLUTE QUANTIFICATION; DROPLET-BASED MICROFLUIDICS; HIGH THROUGH-PUT CHARACTERIZATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT; KEY PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORMS; PROTEIN CHARACTERIZATION; SINGLECELL ANALYSIS;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 84958522120     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s16020232     Document Type: Review

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