Quantitative real-time RT-PCR: Application to carcinogenesis

Cancer Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 317-332

  Ahmed, Farid E ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Detection chemistry; Gene expression; LCM; Real time PCR; Review

Indexed keywords

CANCER THERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL POPULATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEVICE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA EXTRACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 30044439929     PISSN: 11096535     EISSN: 17906245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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