Enhancing the specificity and efficiency of polymerase chain reaction using polyethyleneimine-based derivatives and hybrid nanocomposites

International Journal of Nanomedicine

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages 1069-1078

  Tong, Weiwei ^a   Cao, Xueyan ^a   Wen, Shihui ^a   Guo, Rui ^a   Shen, Mingwu ^a   Wang, Jianhua ^b   Shi, Xiangyang ^a,c  

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Gold nanoparticles; Multiwalled carbon nanotubes; Nanocomposites; Polyethyleneimine; Polymerase chain reaction; Specificity

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYETHYLENEIMINE DERIVATIVE; CARBON NANOTUBE; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; POLYETHYLENEIMINE;

ANALYTICAL EFFICIENCY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BASE SEQUENCE; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84862322225     PISSN: 11769114     EISSN: 11782013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/IJN.S28947     Document Type: Article

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