The use of quantitative RT-PCR to measure mRNA expression in a rat model of focal ischemia - Caspase-3 as a case study

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 143-149

  Harrison, David C ^a   Medhurst, Andrew D ^a   Bond, Brian C ^a   Campbell, Colin A ^a   Davis, Robert P ^a   Philpott, Karen L ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caspase; Housekeeping genes; Ischemia; mRNA

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CYCLOPHILIN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; REAGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033978884     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(99)00305-8     Document Type: Article

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