American Association for Cancer Research

Table 1

Sensitivity of real-time quantitative RT-PCR of GD2 synthase mRNA

Ratio of tumor cells to normal marrow cells	GD2 synthase/GAPDH
10⁻²	581.91 ± 62.41^a
10⁻³	93.24 ± 4.75
10⁻⁴	24.18 ± 2.06
10⁻⁵	12.18 ± 1.51
10⁻⁶	9.54 ± 1.74

Ratio of tumor cells to normal marrow cells	GD2 synthase/GAPDH
10⁻²	581.91 ± 62.41^a
10⁻³	93.24 ± 4.75
10⁻⁴	24.18 ± 2.06
10⁻⁵	12.18 ± 1.51
10⁻⁶	9.54 ± 1.74

Mean ± SE of two experiments.