Global single-cell cDNA amplification to provide a template for representative high-density oligonucleotide microarray analysis

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 739-752

  Kurimoto, Kazuki ^a   Yabuta, Yukihiro ^a   Ohinata, Yasuhide ^a   Saitou, Mitinori ^a,b,c  

^a RIKEN KOBE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EXONUCLEASE; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; RNA POLYMERASE; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; CYTOLYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TEMPLATE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HYBRIDIZATION; MAMMAL CELL; METHODOLOGY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PURIFICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 34347235153     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.79     Document Type: Article

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