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DRUG DISCOVERY TODAY
Volume 10, Issue 17, Pages 1167-1174Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-6446(05)03555-5
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The complexity of the brain makes the investigation of anatomically defined regions using manual dissection techniques problematic. With these manual dissection techniques, only a mixture of many different cell types can be obtained. This leads to averaging the contents of all the different cell types, making it nearly impossible to observe effects that are specific to one type of cell. Laser microdissection enables individual cell-types to be dissected accurately from the brain for subsequent analysis of the genome, proteome or, most frequently, the transcriptome. Investigating only functionally relevant cells with high specificity provides unambiguous data, resulting in faster identification of potential targets, the elucidation of drug mode-of-action, as well as aiding identification of biomarkers for diagnostics use.
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