... in the test and refer-ence samples. The presence of the internal standard probesat different locations of the array allowed quantification of the local background and evaluation of the array homoge-neity, ... into account in the normalization.Furthermore, in order to consider the purity and quality of the mRNA, a second normalization step was performed on the basis of the average of fluorescence intensities ... of 81%, 66% and 69% forSREBF1 ⁄ siRNA1 and reductions of 79%, 78% and 71% for SREBF1 ⁄ siRNA2 in 143B, A549 and IMR-90 cells, respectively (Fig. 1A). Under these conditions, the effect of the...