A rapid, reliable method to isolate high quality endothelial RNA from small spatially-defined locations

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1453-1459

  Simmons, Craig A ^a,b   Zilberberg, Jenny ^a   Davies, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aortic valve; Cell phenotype; Endothelium; Microarray analysis; Porcine

Indexed keywords

AORTIC VALVES; CELL PHENOTYPE; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; THIOCYANATE BUFFER SOLUTIONS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONTAMINATION; DEGRADATION; FREEZING; GLASS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RNA; SOLUTIONS; SUBSTRATES; TISSUE;

CELL CULTURE;

GUANIDINE DERIVATIVE; GUANIDINE THIOCYANATE; RNA; THIOCYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL SEPARATION; CHEMISTRY; COLD; CYTOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EVALUATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; SWINE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE PRESERVATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLD; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GUANIDINES; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROCHEMISTRY; RNA; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SWINE; THIOCYANATES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 8644225791     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/B:ABME.0000042360.57960.2b     Document Type: Article

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