Competitive reverse transcriptase-PCR: An improved method for determination of c-erbB-2 gene expression

Anticancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 849-852

  Schneeberger, Christian ^a,b   Eder, Sabine ^a   Speiser, Paul ^a   Zeillinger, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

c erbB 2 expression; Competitive RT PCR; Northern analysis; RNA

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NORTHERN BLOTTING; ONCOGENE C ERB; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR CELL CULTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, ERBB-2; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RNA, NEOPLASM; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029894736     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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