mRNA/total RNA prep from skeletal muscle

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In article <341D7983.41C6 at hotmail.com>, craig_garen at HOTMAIL.COM (Craig
Garen) wrote:

>Hello
>
>        Does anyone have any clever ideas for the isolation of mRNA from
>skeletal muscle (I'm using rabbit).  Also what is the most efficient
>means of isolating total RNA.  There are a number of protocols available
>and I simply want to know which is best.  
>
>Thanks so much, Craig.

It's been four or five years since I've done this. However, I always had
good luck freezing the tissue in liquid nitrogen, grinding it to powder
using a mortar and pestle (previously baked, of course, to get rid of
RNAses), and then using RNAzol. I used to isolate RNA preps from rat
skeletal muscle and various other rat organs.

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