Highly sensitive and specific fluorescence reverse transcription-PCR assay for the pseudogene-free detection of β-actin transcripts as quantitative reference

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 297-300

  Kreuzer, Karl Anton ^a   Lass, Ulrich ^a   Landt, Olfert ^b   Nitsche, Andreas ^a   Laser, Jutta ^a   Ellerbrok, Heinz ^c   Pauli, Georg ^c   Huhn, Dieter ^a   Schmidt, Christian Andreas ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TIB MOLBIOL   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CELL STRAIN K 562; DNA PROBE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STANDARD; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0032990176     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/45.2.297     Document Type: Article

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