Total Protein Analysis as a Reliable Loading Control for Quantitative Fluorescent Western Blotting

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Eaton, Samantha L ^a   Roche, Sarah L ^b   Llavero Hurtado, Maica ^a   Oldknow, Karla J ^a   Farquharson, Colin ^a   Gillingwater, Thomas H ^b   Wishart, Thomas M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BETA ACTIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; TUBULIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ORGAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLUORESCENCE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; PROTEINS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SCIATIC NERVE; TUBULIN;

EID: 84883345978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072457     Document Type: Article

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