Fol. Biol. 2010, 56, 252-255

https://doi.org/10.14712/fb2010056060252

Isolation of Granulocytes: Which Transcriptome Do We Analyse – Neutrophils or Eosinophils?

S. Stejskal, Irena Koutná, Z. Ručka

Centre for Biomedical Image Analysis, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Received April 2010
Accepted July 2010

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