Whole blood vs PBMC: compartmental differences in gene expression profiling exemplified in asthma
Abstract Background Blood has proven to be a useful resource for molecular analysis in numerous biomedical studies, with peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and whole blood being the major specimen types. However, comparative analyses between these two major compartments (PBMCs and whole bloo...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-11-01
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Series: | Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13223-019-0382-x |