A panel of optimized primers and positive-control DNAs for PCR detection of common biological contaminants in mouse cell lines and tissue samples

Lab Animal

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 31-36

  Ayral, Anne Marie ^b   Clarkson, Sarah ^b   Cheeseman, Michael ^b   Wells, Sara ^b   Dear, T Neil ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; CELL LINE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PLASMID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CELL LINE; DNA PRIMERS; MICE; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33748329562     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0906-31     Document Type: Article

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