Rapid generation of homologous internal standards and evaluation of data for quantitation of messenger RNA by competitive polymerase chain reaction

Journal of Pharmacological and Toxicological Methods

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 133-140

  Anderson, Karen M ^a,b   Cheung, Peter H ^a,b   Kelly, Michael D ^a,b  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNSON AND JOHNSON PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Mimic; Phosphoimager analysis; Quantitative competitive PCR; Standards

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STANDARDIZATION;

AORTA; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0031407387     PISSN: 10568719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1056-8719(97)00078-6     Document Type: Article

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