Reliable reference miRNAs for quantitative gene expression analysis of stress responses in Caenorhabditis elegans

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kagias, Konstantinos ^a   Podolska, Agnieszka ^a   Pocock, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

miRNA; Normalization; qPCR analysis; Reference genes

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 2 5P; MICRORNA 230 3P; MICRORNA 241 3P; MICRORNA 254; MICRORNA 357 3P; MICRORNA 46 3P; MICRORNA 47 3P; MICRORNA 55 3P; MICRORNA 57 5P; MICRORNA 58 3P; MICRORNA 64 5P; MICRORNA 794 5P; MICRORNA 86 5P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEAT STRESS; HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STABLE EXPRESSION; STRESS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GENOME; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME; MICRORNAS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84899066956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-222     Document Type: Article

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