Acoustic microstreaming increases the efficiency of reverse transcription reactions comprising single-cell quantities of RNA

BioTechniques

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 116-119

  Boon, Wah Chin ^a   Petkovic Duran, Karolina ^b   White, Kylie ^a   Tucker, Elena ^a   Albiston, Anthony ^a   Manasseh, Richard ^a,b,c   Horne, Malcolm Kenneth ^a   Aumann, Tim Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cdna; Mixing; Mrna; Qpcr; Rt pcr

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR RELATED FACTOR 1; RNA;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; LIQUID; MICROMIXING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; TECHNIQUE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MICE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79951562721     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: 19409818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000113587     Document Type: Article

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