Flow cytometry/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Flow cytometry.

Technique using an instrument system for making, processing, and displaying one or more measurements on individual cells obtained from a cell suspension. Cells are usually stained with one or more fluorescent dyes specific to cell components of interest, e.g., DNA, and fluorescence of each cell is measured as it rapidly transverses the excitation beam (laser or mercury arc lamp).

This definition is at least in part based on: Anonymous (2024), Flow cytometry (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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