Development of a real-time quantitative reverse transcriptase PCR assay for detection of the Friend leukemia virus load in murine plasma

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 345-350

  He, Jin Yang ^a   Cheng, Hui Jun ^a   Wang, Yan Fang ^b   Zhu, Yu Tong ^a   Li, Guo Qiao ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adefovir dipivoxil; Entecavir; Friend leukemia virus; Plasma viral load; QRT PCR

Indexed keywords

ADEFOVIR DIPIVOXIL; ENTECAVIR; RNA; ZIDOVUDINE;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENVELOPE GENE; FEMALE; FRIEND LEUKEMIA VIRUS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SYNTHESIS; SPLEEN; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TITRATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; FEMALE; FRIEND MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRAL LOAD; VIREMIA;

FRIEND MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 37449014692     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2007.10.009     Document Type: Article

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