TaqMan PCR assay in the control of RNA normalization in human post-mortem brain tissue

Neurochemistry International

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 276-284

  Barrachina, Marta ^a   Castaño, Esther ^b   Ferrer, Isidro ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Post mortem brain; RNA; TaqMan

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; BRAIN PROTEIN; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOPROTEINASE DOMAIN 22; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANALYZER; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBSERVATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN QUALITY; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA STABILITY; VARIANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 33745713158     PISSN: 01970186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuint.2006.01.018     Document Type: Article

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