Quantitation of low abundance mRNAs in glial cells using different polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based methods

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 217-223

  Santagati, Sabrina ^a   Garnier, Martine ^a   Carlo, Pia ^b   Violani, Elisabetta ^a   Picotti, Giovanni B ^b   Maggi, Adriana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor; Monoamine oxidase; Quantitative polymerase chain reaction; Reverse transcription; Semi quantitative polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME A; AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME B; BETA ACTIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DNA POLYMERASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MAGNESIUM ION; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLIA CELL; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RNA ANALYSIS; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; DENSITOMETRY; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; MUTATION; NEUROGLIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERUS;

EID: 0031396435     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-299X(96)00033-5     Document Type: Article

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