A simple nested RT-PCR method for quantitation of the relative amounts of multiple cytokine mRNAs in small tissue samples

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 193-203

  Kotake, Shigeru ^a   Schumacher Jr , H Ralph ^b   Wilder, Ronald L ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

cytokine; mRNA; needle biopsy; quantitation; reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; synovium

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; CYTOKINE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIUM;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CYTOKINES; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; KNEE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 0030589819     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(96)00184-6     Document Type: Article

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