Microarray TRAP - A high-throughput assay to quantitate telomerase activity

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 323, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 465-472

  Heller Uszynska, Katarzyna ^a   Kilian, Andrzej ^a,b  

^a Cambia   (Australia)

^b Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

High throughput; Microarray; Telomerase; TRAP assay

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL SUSPENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EXPERIMENT; EXTRACT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROARRAY TELOMERIC REPEAT AMPLIFICATION PROTOCOL; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY; TELOMERIC REPEAT AMPLIFICATION PROTOCOL;

ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORYZA SATIVA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELOMERASE;

EID: 4544309174     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.08.109     Document Type: Article

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