Morpholino phosphorodiamidate oligonucleotides in zebrafish: A recipe for functional genomics?

Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 239-256

  Sumanas, Saulius ^a   Larson, Jon D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional genomics; Morpholino phosphorodiamidate antisense oligonucleotides; Translational inhibition; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHORAMIDIC ACID; PHOSPHORIC ACID;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; ZEBRA FISH;

AMIDES; ANIMALS; GENOMICS; MODELS, GENETIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PHOSPHORIC ACIDS; RNA SPLICING; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0037884552     PISSN: 14739550     EISSN: 14774062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/1.3.239     Document Type: Article

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