Transcript level of erythroid differentiation-related factor, a candidate surrogate marker for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy diseases in blood, shows a broad range of variation in healthy individuals

Transfusion

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1706-1710

  Glock, Barbara ^a   Winter, Maya ^b   Rennhofer, Simone O ^b   Brunhölzl, Elisabeth ^b   Tröscher, Doris ^b   Reisacher, Rosemarie B K ^b   Mayr, Wolfgang R ^b  

^a Blood Donation Center for Vienna   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ERYTHROID DIFFERENTIATION RELATED FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CATTLE; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTESTINE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT; SHEEP;

ACTIVINS; ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INHIBIN-BETA SUBUNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRION DISEASES; REFERENCE VALUES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0344735769     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0041-1132.2003.00575.x     Document Type: Article

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