Quantitative competitive (qc) RT-PCR as a tool in biomarker analysis

Biomarkers

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 7-14

  Evans, Clive W ^a   Wilson, David A ^a   Mills, Geoffrey N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Flounder; Heavy metals; Metallothionein; Pollution; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

COPPER; HEAVY METAL; METALLOTHIONEIN; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOSENSOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FISH; LIVER METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLUTANT; PROTEIN INDUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALIA; PLEURONECTOIDEI; RHOMBOSOLEA LEPORINA;

EID: 0035156446     PISSN: 1354750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135475001452733     Document Type: Article

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