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SUBMITTER: Carolan LA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7113642 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carolan Louise A LA Butler Jeff J Rockman Steve S Guarnaccia Teagan T Hurt Aeron C AC Reading Patrick P Kelso Anne A Barr Ian I Laurie Karen L KL
Journal of virological methods 20140504
The ferret is an excellent model for many human infectious diseases including influenza, SARS-CoV, henipavirus and pneumococcal infections. The ferret is also used to study cystic fibrosis and various cancers, as well as reproductive biology and physiology. However, the range of reagents available to measure the ferret immune response is very limited. To address this deficiency, high-throughput real time RT-PCR TaqMan assays were developed to measure the expression of fifteen immune mediators as ...[more]