A sensitive non-radioactive northern blot method to detect small RNAs

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Kim, Sang Woo ^a   Li, Zhihua ^a,b   Moore, Patrick S ^b   Monaghan, A Paula ^a   Chang, Yuan ^b   Nichols, Mark ^a   John, Bino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 (3 DIMETHYLAMINOPROPYL) 3 ETHYLCARBODIIMIDE; DIGOXIGENIN; LOCKED NUCLEIC ACID; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 16; MICRORNA 21; RNA; SMALL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BUFFER; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHORUS; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HYBRIDIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOTOPE LABELING; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BUFFERS; CELL LINE; DIGOXIGENIN; ETHYLDIMETHYLAMINOPROPYL CARBODIIMIDE; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PHOSPHORUS RADIOISOTOPES; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77954138395     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp1235     Document Type: Article

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