The design of a quantitative western blot experiment

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Taylor, Sean C ^a   Posch, Anton ^b  

^a BioRad Laboratories   (Canada)

^b BIO RAD Laboratories GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; DATA ANALYSIS; DENSITOMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; WESTERN BLOTTING; CHEMISTRY; LUMINESCENCE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS;

PROTEIN;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; DENSITOMETRY; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; PROTEINS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84897530175     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/361590     Document Type: Review

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