Measuring the absolute abundance of the smad transcription factors using quantitative immunoblotting

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 647, Issue , 2010, Pages 357-376

  Clarke, David C ^a   Liu, Xuedong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell signaling; Immunoblot; Quantitative; Smad; Transforming Growth Factor ; Western blot

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934438238     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-738-9_22     Document Type: Article

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