A comprehensive approach to identify reliable reference gene candidates to investigate the link between alcoholism and endocrinology in Sprague-Dawley rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Taki, Faten A ^a   Abdel Rahman, Abdel A ^b   Zhang, Baohong ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ESTROGEN; RNA; ESTRADIOL;

18S RRNA GENE; 5S RRNA GENE; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B2M GENE; BACT GENE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEMALE; GADD45AF GENE; GAPDH GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HEART; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HPRT GENE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARIECTOMY; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TBP GENE; TNKS GENE; U2 GENE; U5A GENE; U6 GENE; U87 GENE; UBC GENE; Z39 GENE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; STANDARD;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, ESSENTIAL; MALE; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84901262242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094311     Document Type: Article

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