Normalization of circulating nucleic acid results: Should we use β-actin?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1137, Issue , 2008, Pages 112-118

  Holford, N C ^a   Ramoutar, A ^a   Butt, A N ^a   Swaminathan, R ^a,b  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GADPH; T3 receptor; Thyroid hormones; actin, plasma DNA

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); BETA ACTIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LIOTHYRONINE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; THYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; RNA STABILITY;

EID: 52249116804     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1448.000     Document Type: Conference Paper

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