A sensitive, non-radioactive quantitative method for measuring IL-4 and IL-4δ2 mRNA in unstimulated cells from multiple clinical samples, using nested RT-PCR

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 228, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 139-149

  Seah, G T ^a   Rook, G A W ^a  

^a Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cRNA standards; IL 4; RT PCR; Splice variant

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EVALUATION STUDIES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-4; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, COMPLEMENTARY; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032723128     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(99)00084-8     Document Type: Article

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