Quantitation of equine cytokine mRNA expression by reverse transcription-competitive polymerase chain reaction

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-15

  Giguère, Steeve ^a   Prescott, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Equine; Quantitation; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA TEMPLATE; HORSE; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CONCANAVALIN A; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; GENE LIBRARY; HORSES; INTERFERON-ALPHA; INTERLEUKINS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0344389047     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-2427(98)00212-8     Document Type: Article

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