Flow Cytometry: First Principles

Preface. Acknowledgments (First Edition). Acknowledgments (Second Edition). The Past as Prologue. Setting the Scene. Instrumentation: Into the Black Box. Information: Harnessing the Data. Seeing the Light: Lasers, Fluorochromes, and Filters. Cells from Without: Leukocytes, Surface Proteins, and the Strategy of Gating. Cells from Within: Intracellular Proteins. Cells from Within: DNA in Life and Death. The Sorting of Cells. Disease and Diagnosis: The Clinical Laboratory. Out of the Mainstream: Research Frontiers. Flowing On: The Future. General References. Glossary. Figure Credits. Index.