Ex vivo induction of cytokine mRNA expression in human blood samples

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 249, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 63-71

  Härtel, Christoph ^a   Bein, Gregor ^b   Müller Steinhardt, Michael ^a   Klüter, Harald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood collection; Cytokine mRNA; PBMC; Real time PCR; Whole blood

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; HEPARIN; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; LITHIUM; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SEPARATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TECHNIQUE;

BLOOD CELLS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0035282675     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(00)00334-3     Document Type: Article

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