Monitoring microRNA expression during embryonic stem-cell differentiation using quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR)

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 650, Issue , 2010, Pages 213-224

  Pan, Xiaoping ^a   Murashov, Alexander K ^b   Stellwag, Edmund J ^a   Zhang, Baohong ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

differentiation; Embryonic stem cell; gene expression; microRNA; qRT PCR; quantitative real time PCR

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; MICE; MICRORNAS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 79952017117     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-769-3_16     Document Type: Article

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