Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based Methodology to Quantify Differential Gene Expression Directly from Microdissected Regions of Frozen Tissue Sections

Molecular Carcinogenesis

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 317-326

  Fernandez, Patricia M ^a,b   Pluta, Linda J ^a   Fransson Steen, Ronny ^a,c   Goldsworthy, Thomas L ^a   Fox, Tony R ^a,d  

^a CIIT CENTERS FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

^d GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

c myc; Gene expression; Liver foci

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CYTOLOGY; DISSECTION; FROZEN SECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; LIVER; LIVER TUMOR; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; ONCOGENE MYC; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIVISION; DISSECTION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FROZEN SECTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, MYC; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031280135     PISSN: 08991987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2744(199711)20:3<317::AID-MC8>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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