Simultaneous quantitation of equine cytokine mRNAs using a multi-probe ribonuclease protection assay

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-51

  Lim, W S ^a   Edwards, J F ^a   Boyd, N K ^a   Payne, S L ^a   Ball, J M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Horse; Macrophage; PBMC; RNA

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORSE; ISOTOPE LABELING; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA PROBE;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; HORSES; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MACROPHAGES; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0037427978     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-2427(02)00263-5     Document Type: Article

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