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Descriptor English: Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
Descriptor Spanish: Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa de Transcriptasa Inversa
Descriptor reacción en cadena de la polimerasa por transcriptasa inversa
Scope note: Variación de la técnica PCR en la que el ADNc se obtiene a partir del ARN mediante transcripción inversa. El ADNc resultante se amplifica usando los protocolos PCR normalizados.
Descriptor Portuguese: Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa
Descriptor French: RT-PCR
Entry term(s): PCR, Reverse Transcriptase
Polymerase Chain Reaction, Reverse Transcriptase
Reverse Transcriptase PCR
Transcriptase PCR, Reverse
Tree number(s): E05.393.620.500.725
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D020133
Scope note: A variation of the PCR technique in which cDNA is made from RNA via reverse transcription. The resultant cDNA is then amplified using standard PCR protocols.
Annotation: RT-PCR in the literature probably goes here not under REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; check text
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
MT methods
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: Polymerase Chain Reaction (1991-1998)
RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase (1991-1998)
Public MeSH Note: 99
History Note: 99
Related: RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase MeSH
DeCS ID: 33872
Unique ID: D020133
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1999/01/01
Date of Entry: 1998/06/11
Revision Date: 2011/06/24
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction - Preferred
Concept UI M0029872
Scope note A variation of the PCR technique in which cDNA is made from RNA via reverse transcription. The resultant cDNA is then amplified using standard PCR protocols.
Preferred term Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
Entry term(s) PCR, Reverse Transcriptase
Polymerase Chain Reaction, Reverse Transcriptase
Reverse Transcriptase PCR
Transcriptase PCR, Reverse



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