Flow Cytometry (eBook)

Alice Givan was born in Brooklyn, N.Y.. She received her A.B. at Bryn Mawr College and her Ph.D. at Harvard University. After completing her formal education, she moved to the north of England where, at Newcastle University Medical School, she learned flow cytometry with an instrument that was being used for the development of methods to predict and monitor rejection reactions in transplant patients. After 20 years in England, Alice Givan moved back to the United States and is now Director of the Herbert C. Englert Cell Analysis Laboratory (the flow cytometry and fluorescence imaging resource of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center) at Dartmouth Medical School. She also organizes and teaches courses and workshops for new flow cytometrists.

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.

"...reflects innovations in the field since the first edition was
published..." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2002)
"I consider it to be the best presentation of principles of flow cytometry. The text is clearly written, the figures are well chosen." --Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, Brander Cancer Research Institute, New York Medical College