flow cytometry

(noun)

A technique used to sort and classify cells by using fluorescent markers on their surface.

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Examples of flow cytometry in the following topics:

  • Fluorescent Antibodies

    • This method is known as flow cytometry and requires a flow cell sorter rather than a fluorescent microscope .

  • The Future of Diagnostic Immunology

  • Units of Measurement for Microbes

    • The measurement of an exponential microbial growth curve in batch culture was traditionally a part of the training of all microbiologists; The basic means requires bacterial enumeration (cell counting) by direct and individual (microscopic, flow cytometry), direct and bulk (biomass), indirect and individual (colony counting), or indirect and bulk (most probable number, turbidity, nutrient uptake) methods .

  • Replication of Herpes Simplex Virus

    • Research using flow cytometry on another member of the herpes virus family, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, indicates the possibility of an additional lytic stage, delayed-late.

  • Tests That Differentiate Between T Cells and B cells

    • More modern techniques like flow cytometry and immunohistochemistry are commonly used and rely on the use of fluorescent antibodies.

  • Generation Time

    • The basic means requires bacterial enumeration (cell counting) by direct and individual (microscopic, flow cytometry), direct and bulk (biomass), indirect and individual (colony counting), or indirect and bulk (most probable number, turbidity, nutrient uptake) methods.

  • Growth Rate and Temperature

    • The basic means requires bacterial enumeration (cell counting) by direct and individual (microscopic, flow cytometry), direct and bulk (biomass), indirect and individual (colony counting), or indirect and bulk (most probable number, turbidity, nutrient uptake) methods.

  • Measurements of Microbial Mass

    • The measurement of an exponential bacterial growth curve in a batch culture was traditionally a part of the training of all microbiologists; the basic means requires bacterial enumeration (cell counting) by direct and individual (microscopic, flow cytometry), direct and bulk (biomass), indirect and individual (colony counting), or indirect and bulk (most probable number, turbidity , nutrient uptake) methods.

  • Osmotic Pressure

    • Osmotic pressure is the pressure which must be applied to a solution to prevent the inward flow of water across a semipermeable membrane.
    • Osmotic pressure is the pressure which needs to be applied to a solution to prevent the inward flow of water across a semipermeable membrane.
    • Osmosis causes water to flow from an area of low solute concentration to an area of high solute concentration until the two areas have an equal ratio of solute to water.
    • Normally, the solute diffuses toward equilibrium as well; however, all cells are surrounded by a lipid bilayer cell membrane which permits the flow of water in and out of the cell but restricts the flow of solute under many circumstances.
    • In an isotonic solution, water flows into the cell at the same rate it flows out.

  • Sources and Sinks of Essential Elements

    • Biogeochemical cycles are pathways by which essential elements flow from the abiotic and biotic compartments of the Earth.
    • Flows of nutrients from living to non-living components of the Earth are called biogeochemical cycles.
    • This flow from abiotic to biotic compartments of the Earth is typical of biogeochemical cycles.