Region-Specific In Situ Hybridization-Guided Laser-Capture Microdissection on Postmortem Human Brain Tissue Coupled with Gene Expression Quantification

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 755, Issue , 2011, Pages 345-361

  Bernard, René ^a   Burke, Sharon ^b   Kerman, Ilan A ^c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Gene expression; In situ hybridization; Laser capture; Microarray; Microdissection; Nucleus; PCR; Postmortem

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOTINYLATION; BRAIN; CALIBRATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MICRODISSECTION; MICROTOMY; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BIOTINYLATION; BRAIN; CALIBRATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LASERS; MICRODISSECTION; MICROTOMY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

EID: 79960936836     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-163-5_29     Document Type: Chapter

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