Efficient ex vivo inhibition of perforin and Fas ligand expression by chimeric tRNA-hammerhead ribozymes

Human Gene Therapy

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1551-1560

  Du, Zhimei ^a   Ricordi, Camillo ^a   Inverardi, Luca ^a   Podack, Eckhard ^a   Pastori, Ricardo L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; FAS LIGAND; PERFORIN; RIBOZYME; TRANSFER RNA;

ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CYTOPLASM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PAPILLOMA VIRUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

PAPILLOMAVIRUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032551705     PISSN: 10430342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/hum.1998.9.11-1551     Document Type: Article

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