Quantification of murine cytokine mRNAs using real time quantitative reverse transcriptase PCR

Cytokine

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 305-312

  Overbergh, Lut ^a   Valckx, Dirk ^a   Waer, Mark ^a   Mathieu, Chantal ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Mouse; mRNA; Quantitative PCR; TaqMan

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 7; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; IMMUNOREGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0033119065     PISSN: 10434666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cyto.1998.0426     Document Type: Article

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