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. 1994 Oct 25;22(21):4547–4549. doi: 10.1093/nar/22.21.4547

A rapid procedure for the quantitation of low abundance RNAs by competitive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction.

G Grassi 1, L Zentilin 1, S Tafuro 1, S Diviacco 1, A Ventura 1, A Falaschi 1, M Giacca 1
PMCID: PMC308493  PMID: 7526345

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