mRNA and microRNA purity and integrity: The key to success in expression profiling

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1160, Issue , 2014, Pages 43-53

  Kirchner, Benedikt ^a   Paul, Vijay ^a   Riedmaier, Irmgard ^a   Pfaffl, Michael W ^a  

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Author keywords

Denaturing gel electrophoresis; Microfluidic capillary electrophoresis; MicroRNA (miRNA); MIQE; mRNA; qPCR; RNA integrity; RNA purity; UV Vis spectrophotometer

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; NUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICROFLUIDICS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; GENETICS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MOUSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICE; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICRORNAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84921424818     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0733-5_5     Document Type: Article

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