Assessment of ribozyme cleavage efficiency using reverse transcriptase real-time PCR

Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology - Part B Molecular Biotechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 189-195

  Klein, Dagmar ^b   Denis, Melvin ^b   Ricordi, Camillo ^b   Pastori, Ricardo L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

CD95 (Fas); Insulinoma cell lines; Real time PCR; Ribozymes; TC 3 cells

Indexed keywords

FAS ANTIGEN; RIBOZYME; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0033937467     PISSN: 10736085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/MB:14:3:189     Document Type: Article

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