A fluorimeter-based RT-PCR method for the detection and quantitation of porcine cytokines

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 230, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 19-27

  Spagnuolo Weaver, M ^a,b   Fuerst, R ^c   Campbell, S T ^a,b   Meehan, B M ^a,b   McNeilly, F ^a   Adair, B ^a   Allan, G ^a  

^a AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c Biogene Hse 6 Bus Ctr H   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Fluorimeter based PCR; PCR; Porcine

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUOROMETRY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FLUOROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-2; LEUKOCYTES; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SWINE;

SUIDAE;

EID: 0032734430     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(99)00114-3     Document Type: Article

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