Optimal procedure for extracting RNA from human ocular tissues and expression profiling of the congenital glaucoma gene FOXCI using quantitative RT-PCR

Molecular Vision

Volumn 7, Issue , 2001, Pages 89-94

  Wang, Wan Heng ^a   McNatt, Loretta G ^a   Shepard, Allan R ^a   Jacobson, Nasreen ^a   Nishimura, Darryl Y ^b   Stone, Edwin M ^c   Sheffield, Val C ^b,c   Clark, Abbot F ^a  

^a ALCON RESEARCH LTD   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; ICE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXC1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; CHOROID; CILIARY BODY; CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA; CORNEA; CRYOPRESERVATION; DISSECTION; FREEZING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRIS; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MUSCLE TISSUE; OPTIC NERVE; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA ISOLATION; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EYE; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE DONORS; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0035789569     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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