Antisense oligonucleotides selected by hybridisation to scanning arrays are effective reagents in vivo

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2041-2051

  Sohail, Muhammad ^d   Hochegger, Helfrid ^a   Klotzbücher, Andrea ^b   Le Guellec, Rene ^c   Hunt, Tim ^a   Southern, Edwin M ^d  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b Inst für Molekulare Onkologie   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CELL EXTRACT; CYCLINE; HETERODUPLEX; MESSENGER RNA; REAGENT; RIBONUCLEASE H;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TARGETING; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; XENOPUS;

EID: 0035873670     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.10.2041     Document Type: Article

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