RNA interference - A new weapon against HIV and beyond

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 347, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 1364-1367

  Kitabwalla, Moiz ^a   Ruprecht, Ruth M ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; ENDONUCLEASE; MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; STRUCTURAL GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

GENE SILENCING; HIV; RECEPTORS, CCR5; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 0037168029     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcibr022294     Document Type: Article

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