A competitive reverse transcription-PCR to study apolipoprotein ε gene expression

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 773-778

  Rexin, Martin ^b   Feussner, Giso ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA; MALE; RECEPTOR BINDING; RELIABILITY; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031901282     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/44.4.773     Document Type: Article

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