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Table 1 Rate of degradation of 28S and 18S rRNA in bovine skeletal muscle, adipose tissue and liver and the statistics of the slope from the exponential regression model

From: Long-term stability of RNA in post-mortem bovine skeletal muscle, liver and subcutaneous adipose tissues

 

Half-life

R 2

P <

Slope

SE

28S rRNA

     

Skeletal muscle (48)

141 h (5.9 d)

0.91

0.001

-0.00491

0.00023

Adipose tissue (48)

125 h (5.2 d)

0.66

0.001

-0.00557

0.00060

Liver (32)

21 h (0.9 d)

0.75

0.001

-0.03309

0.00347

18S rRNA

     

Skeletal muscle*

-

-

-

-

-

Adipose tissue (48)

216 h (9.0 d)

0.45

0.001

-0.00321

0.00053

Liver (32)

69 h (2.9 d)

0.19

0.05

-0.01009

0.00376

  1. (numbers in parenthesis is the n = number of observation used for half-life calculation, *due to the non-significant (P > 0.05) change in the intensity of 18S rRNA of the skeletal muscle after 22 days post-mortem, exponential model failed to fit the 18S data)
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BMC Molecular Biology

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