Considerations when quantitating protein abundance by immunoblot

American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology

Volumn 308, Issue 6, 2015, Pages C426-C433

  McDonough, Alicia A ^a   Veiras, Luciana C ^a   Minas, Jacqueline N ^b   Ralph, Donna Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody antigen; Immunoblot Western blot; Immunodetection; Quantitation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); ANTIBODY; ANTISERUM; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY LABELING; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; GEL; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNODETECTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STAINING; TISSUES; ANIMAL; CALIBRATION; IMMUNOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STANDARD; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOMARKERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PROTEINS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84988227672     PISSN: 03636143     EISSN: 15221563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00400.2014     Document Type: Article

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