Nonradioactive, agarose minigel procedure for telomeric repeat amplification protocol

BioTechniques

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1029-1032

  Fong, Dunne ^a,c   Burke, James R ^b   Chan, Marion Man Ying ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PODIATRIC MEDICINE   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; RNA; TELOMERASE;

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERE;

EID: 0030728524     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/97236bm13     Document Type: Article

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