Establishment of quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assays for human telomerase-associated genes

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 290, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 117-127

  Yajima, Tomomi ^a   Yagihashi, Atsuhito ^a   Kameshima, Hidekazu ^a   Furuya, Daisuke ^a   Kobayashi, Daisuke ^a   Hirata, Koichi ^a   Watanabe, Naoki ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

hTERT; mRNA; RT PCR; TaqMan(TM) PCR; Telomerase; TEP1

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA PROBES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TELOMERASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033988422     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-8981(99)00188-6     Document Type: Article

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