title: Terminal continuation (TC) RNA amplification without second strand synthesis.
abstract: Terminal continuation (TC) RNA amplification was developed originally to reproducibly and inexpensively amplify RNA. The TC RNA amplification method has been improved further by obviating second strand DNA synthesis, a cost-effective protocol that takes less time to perform with fewer manipulations required for RNA amplification. Results demonstrate that TC RNA amplification without second strand synthesis does not differ from the original protocol using RNA harvested from mouse brain and from hippocampal neurons obtained via laser capture microdissection from postmortem human brains. The modified TC RNA amplification method can discriminate single cell gene expression profiles between normal control and Alzheimer's disease hippocampal neurons indistinguishable from the original protocol. Thus, TC RNA amplification without second strand synthesis is a reproducible, time- and cost-effective method for RNA amplification from minute amounts of input RNA, and is compatible with microaspiration strategies and subsequent microarray analysis as well as quantitative real-time PCR.
authors.affiliation: Center for Dementia Research, Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, NY 10962, United States.
authors.forename: Melissa J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Alldred
authors.forename: Shaoli
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Che
authors.forename: Stephen D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Ginsberg
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000235:genetics; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D001923:Brain Chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D015870:Gene Expression / Q000235:genetics; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D042282:Microdissection / Q000379:methods; D021141:Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D012313:RNA / Q000032:analysis* / Q000138:chemical synthesis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D012313:RNA