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Quantification of cytokine transcripts using polymerase chain reaction Volume 8, numéro 3, September 1997

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In the last few years, most of the attempts to improve the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) have been dedicated to making it quantitative. Quantification of DNA sequences or of mRNA transcripts can indeed be an important tool for a large number of diagnostic tests as well as for medical or environmental analyses. The measurement of cytokine transcripts is of particular interest, because the protein products are often below the detection [...]