Patent · US Expired

Methods for characterizing mRNA molecules

US6670121B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

Biofrontera Pharmaceuticals GmbH · DE

Inventors

Ralf Hoffmann
Hermann Lubbert · Burscheid, DE
Stefan Zwilling · Leverkusen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 24, 2000
Grant date	Dec 30, 2003
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 24, 2020

Classification

Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
CPC primaryC12Q1/6809
WIPO fieldBiotechnology
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to methods for the qualitative and quantitative determination of differentially expressed mRNA molecules. Said methods are used especially to determine all possible mRNA molecules present in a cell or a tissue, and to compare them with other cells or tissues, with other conditions (stages of disease or development), or with stages of treatment for these conditions. The method provided for in the invention therefore makes it possible, for example, to establish a comprehensive map of the different mRNA molecules present in a defined mRNA population and subsequently to use the preferably digital information obtained in this way in data base analyses.

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