Failure of the PAXgene™ Blood RNA System to maintain mRNA stability in whole blood

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1190-1192

  Kågedal, Bertil ^a   Lindqvist, Malin ^a   Farnebäck, Malin ^a   Lenner, Liselotte ^a   Peterson, Curt ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

PAXgene blood RNA system; Preanalytics; Transcript stability

Indexed keywords

MELANOMA ANTIGEN 1; MELANOMA ANTIGEN 3; MESSENGER RNA; THIOPURINE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ARTIFACTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27744545980     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14346621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2005.206     Document Type: Article

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