Impact of purified water quality on molecular biology experiments

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 486-491

  Mabic, Stéphane ^a   Kano, Ichiro ^a  

^a Millipore SAS   (France)

Author keywords

Denaturing HPLC; Photooxidation; Purified water; RT PCR; Ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

DIETHYL PYROCARBONATE; REAGENT; RIBONUCLEASE; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURATION; DENSITOMETRY; DNA DETERMINATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REPRESSION; EXPERIMENTATION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE MUTATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHOTOOXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ULTRAFILTRATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DIETHYL PYROCARBONATE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PANCREAS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEASE, PANCREATIC; RNA; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER;

EID: 0038735457     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2003.073     Document Type: Article

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