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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 20.
Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev Syst Biol Med. 2020 Aug 3;13(1):e1503. doi: 10.1002/wsbm.1503

FIGURE 4.

FIGURE 4

Workflow of mass cytometry. Antibodies conjugated with varied metal isotopes are first applied to stain the protein targets. Subsequently, cells are nebulized into single-cell droplet, and passed through an inductively couple plasma (ICP) time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer to obtain an elemental mass spectrum for every single cell (Reprinted with permission from Bendall and Nolan (2012). Copyright 2012 Nature Publishing Group)