Quantification of human interleukin 18 mRNA expression by competitive reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction

Cytokine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 451-458

  Klein, Stefan A ^a,b   Ottmann, Oliver G ^a   Ballas, Karin ^a   Dobmeyer, Thomas S ^a   Pape, Martine ^a   Weidmann, Eckhart ^a   Hoelzer, Dieter ^a   Kalina, Uwe ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competitive reverse transcriptase; IGIF; Interleukin 18; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INTERLEUKIN 18; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL STIMULATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; MONOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0033152373     PISSN: 10434666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cyto.1998.0424     Document Type: Article

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