Quantification of cDNA generated by reverse transcription of total RNA provides a simple alternative tool for quantitative RT-PCR normalization
Open Access
- 1 August 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in BioTechniques
- Vol. 41 (2) , 156-164
- https://doi.org/10.2144/000112232
Abstract
Why Be NormalGene expression profiling by real-time RT-PCR is a much more straight-forward way to quantitate transcript abundance than traditional end point RT-PCR assays. Despite this progress in instrumentation and...Keywords
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