Neurobiology of Aging
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 654-664 , April 2010

Inter-age variability of bona fide unvaried transcripts: Normalization of quantitative PCR data in ischemic stroke

  • M.W. Sieber

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital, Friedrich-Schiller University, 07743 Jena, Germany
    • Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Friedrich-Schiller University, 07743 Jena, Germany
    • For the ARGES consortium.
    • ,
  • M. Guenther

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Friedrich-Schiller University, 07743 Jena, Germany
    • ,
  • M. Kohl

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mathematical Statistics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
    • ,
  • O.W. Witte

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Friedrich-Schiller University, 07743 Jena, Germany
    • For the ARGES consortium.
    • ,
  • R.A. Claus

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital, Friedrich-Schiller University, 07743 Jena, Germany
    • For the ARGES consortium.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: University Hospital, Friedrich-Schiller University, Erlanger Allee 101, D-07743 Jena, Germany. Tel.: +49 3641 9325860; fax: +49 3641 9325862.
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  • C. Frahm

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Friedrich-Schiller University, 07743 Jena, Germany
    • For the ARGES consortium.

Received 3 December 2007 ,Revised 12 May 2008 ,Accepted 25 May 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2008.05.023

Neurobiology of Aging
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 654-664 , April 2010

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