Real-time PCR for mRNA quantitation

BioTechniques

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 75-85

  Wong, Marisa L ^a   Medrano, Juan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

AMPLIFICATION EFFICIENCY CALCULATIONS; MRNA QUANTITATION; REAL-TIME PCR;

RNA;

BETA ACTIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

CALCULATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DNA BINDING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HYBRIDIZATION; HYDROLYSIS; RANK SUM TEST; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; CHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 24944534978     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/05391RV01     Document Type: Review

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