Development of a pan-retrovirus detection system for multiple sclerosis studies

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, Supplement

Volumn 95, Issue 169, 1997, Pages 16-21

  Tuke, P W ^a   Perron, H ^a   Bedin, F ^a   Beseme, F ^a   Garson, J A ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

degenerate primers; multiple sclerosis; polymerase chain reaction; retrovirus

Indexed keywords

POL PROTEIN;

CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN TISSUE; LENTIVIRINAE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; ONCOVIRINAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; SIMIAN VIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENE; VIROLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE PRODUCTS, POL; GENES, POL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRIDAE; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0030634811     PISSN: 00651427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1997.tb08145.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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