Expanding the Available Assays: Adapting and Validating In-Cell Westerns in Microfluidic Devices for Cell-Based Assays
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Expanding the available assays: adapting and validating In-Cell Westerns in microfluidic devices for cell-based assays.
Microfluidic methods for cellular studies can significantly reduce costs due to reduced reagent and biological specimen requirements compared with many traditional culture techniques. However, current types of readouts are limited and this lack of suitable readouts for microfluidic cultures has significantly hindered the application of microfluidics for cell-based assays. The In-Cell Western (I...
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عنوان ژورنال: ASSAY and Drug Development Technologies
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1540-658X,1557-8127
DOI: 10.1089/adt.2010.0274