TaqMan real time RT-PCR assays for detecting ferret innate and adaptive immune responses

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 205, Issue , 2014, Pages 38-52

  Carolan, Louise A ^a   Butler, Jeff ^a,e   Rockman, Steve ^b,c   Guarnaccia, Teagan ^a,d   Hurt, Aeron C ^a   Reading, Patrick ^a   Kelso, Anne ^a   Barr, Ian ^a   Laurie, Karen L ^a  

^a PETER DOHERTY INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION AND IMMUNITY   (Australia)

^b CSL LIMITED   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Ferret; Gene; Real time RT PCR; TaqMan

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BETA INTERFERON; CHEMOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANZYME A; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; CYTOKINE; MITOGENIC AGENT;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATF4 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; ENZYME ASSAY; FEMALE; GAPDH GENE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HPRT GENE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLUENZA; INNATE IMMUNITY; L32 GENE; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TAQMAN ASSAY; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MUSTELA PUTORIUS FURO; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PROCEDURES;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FERRETS; GENES, ESSENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MITOGENS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84901368601     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: 18790984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2014.04.014     Document Type: Article

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