See Also: blot, northern(medicine)
Blot, Northern(health)
Northern blot(medicine)
Northern blot analysis(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
reticulated(dictionary)
Reticulated(medicine)
reticulated(dictionary)
reticulated bone(medicine)
reticulated corpuscle(medicine)

Northern blot analysis (medicine) and Reticulated (medicine)


Northern blot analysis (medicine)


Northern blot analysis


A procedure similar to the Southern blot analysis, used mostly to separate and identify RNA fragments; typically via transferring RNA fragments from an agarose gel to a nitrocellulose filter followed by detection with a suitable probe.

Origin: coined to distinguish it from eponymic Southern blot a.


Reticulated (medicine)


reticulated


1. Resembling network; having the form or appearance of a net; netted; as, a reticulated structure.

2. Having veins, fibres, or lines crossing like the threads or fibres of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect. Reticulated glass, ornamental ware made from glass in which one set of white or coloured lines seems to meet and interlace with another set in a different plane. Reticulated micrometer, a micrometer for an optical instrument, consisting of a reticule in the focus of an eyepiece. Reticulated work, work constructed with diamond-shaped stones, or square stones placed diagonally.

Origin: L. Reticulatus. See Reticule.

Source: Websters Dictionary