Quantitative telomerase enzyme activity determination using droplet digital PCR with single cell resolution

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2014, Pages

  Ludlow, Andrew T ^a   Robin, Jerome D ^a   Sayed, Mohammed ^a   Litterst, Claudia M ^b   Shelton, Dawne N ^b   Shay, Jerry W ^a   Wright, Woodring E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BIO RAD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL LINE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DROPLET DIGITAL TELOMERE REPEAT AMPLIFICATION PROTOCOL ASSAY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FETUS; GEL BASED TELOMERE REPEAT AMPLIFICATION PROTOCOL ASSAY; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC 50; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEARITY; LYMPHOCYTE; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERIC REPEAT AMPLIFICATION PROTOCOL;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME ASSAYS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERASE;

EID: 84905571226     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku439     Document Type: Article

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