Platforms for single-cell collection and analysis

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2018, Pages

  Valihrach, Lukas ^a   Androvic, Peter ^a,b   Kubista, Mikael ^a,c  

^a Institute of Biotechnology CAS   (Czech Republic)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c TATAA Biocenter   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Analysis; Collection; Isolation; Single cell

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANTIBODY AFFINITY; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL VIABILITY; COST; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPIGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; MICROFILTRATION; MICROMANIPULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ANIMAL; DEVICES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICROFLUIDICS; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDICS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85044109576     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms19030807     Document Type: Review

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