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ArticleBiomicrofluidics2017

Acetylated bovine serum albumin differentially inhibits polymerase chain reaction in microdevices.

Naveen Ramalingam, Majid Ebrahimi Warkiani, Thomas Hai-Qing Gong

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Article in Biomicrofluidics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 53% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Naveen RamalingamSchool of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore 639798.ORCID 0000-0003-2584-8094
Majid Ebrahimi WarkianiSchool of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Australian Center for NanoMedicine, University of New South Wales, 2052 Sydney, Australia.
Thomas Hai-Qing GongSchool of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore 639798.
Nanyang Technological University · SG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bovine serum albumin (BSA) is widely used as an additive in polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based microfluidic devices to passivate reactors and alleviate nucleic-acid amplification. BSA is available commercially in two types: either acetylated or non-acetylated. A survey of literature indicates that both types of BSA are used in PCR-based microfluidic devices. Our study results reveal that the use of acetylated BSA in PCR micro-devices leads to differential inhibition of PCR, compared to non-acetylated BSA. This result is noticed for the first time, and the differential inhibition generally goes un-noticed, as compared to complete PCR inhibition.

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PMID28611870
PMCPMC5435503
OpenAlexW2614313202

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