See Also: Southern blot(medicine)
Blot, Southern(health)
blot, southern(medicine)
Southern blot(dictionary)
Southern blot analysis(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
blot(dictionary)
blot(medicine)
blot(1)(dictionary)
Dot blot(medicine)

basipterygoid (medicine) and Southern blot (medicine)


basipterygoid (medicine)


basipterygoid
<anatomy> Applied to a protuberance of the base of the sphenoid bone.

Origin: Basi- + pierygoid.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Southern blot (medicine)


southern blot


A technique used for searching for a specific DNA fragment. The process is as follows:

1. separate DNA fragments by gel electrophoresis

2. Change pH of gel to basic, thus allowing disruption of H-bonds

3. blot gel with nitrocellulose paper

4. Heat paper so as to fix DNA fragments

5. probe with labelled messenger RNA or cDNA

6. washComplementary mRNA/cDNA fragments will have hybridised.