A new quantitative film autoradiographic method of quantifying mRNA transcripts for in situ hybridization

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1141-1149

  Palfi, Arpad ^a   Hatvani, Laszlo ^b   Gulya, Karoly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

35S standards; Calibration procedure; Calmodulin mRNAs; Computer assisted microdensitometry; Exponential function; Hyperfilm max; Image analysis; In situ hybridization; Mathematical model; Quantitative autoradiography

Indexed keywords

CALMODULIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; CALIBRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICRODENSITOMETRY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; RAT; RNA PROBE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031661894     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002215549804601006     Document Type: Article

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