Multimodal profiling of single-cell morphology, electrophysiology, and gene expression using Patch-seq

Nature Protocols

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 2531-2553

  Cadwell, Cathryn R ^a   Scala, Federico ^a   Li, Shuang ^a   Livrizzi, Giulia ^a   Shen, Shan ^a   Sandberg, Rickard ^b,c   Jiang, Xiaolong ^a,d   Tolias, Andreas S ^a,e  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REAGENT; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN SLICE; CELL STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METABOLISM; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85036627218     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2017.120     Document Type: Article

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