A reliable method for total RNA extraction from frozen human bone marrow samples taken at diagnosis of acute leukaemia

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 865-867

  Barbaric, D ^a   Dalla Pozza, L ^a   Byrne, J A ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; REAGENT; RNA;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; BONE MARROW; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SAMPLE SIZE; STORAGE;

ACUTE DISEASE; BONE MARROW; CHILD; CRYOPRESERVATION; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; LINEAR MODELS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, NEOPLASM; TISSUE BANKS;

EID: 0036845458     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.55.11.865     Document Type: Article

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