Small interfering RNA (siRNA) targeting VEGF effectively inhibits ocular neovascularization in mouse model

Molecular Vision

Volumn 9, Issue , 2003, Pages 210-216

  Reich, Samuel J ^a   Fosnot, Joshua ^a   Kuroki, Akiko ^a   Tang, Waixing ^a   Yang, Xiangyang ^a   Maguire, Albert M ^a   Bennett, Jean ^a   Tolentino, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE DEXTRAN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VASCULOTROPIN; ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR; LYMPHOKINE; PHOTOPROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOXIA; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LASER COAGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RETINA CELL; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA NEOVASCULARIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TISSUE PERFUSION; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; VIRAL GENE THERAPY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHOROID; DEFECTIVE VIRUS; DOWN REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; METABOLISM; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION; VIROLOGY;

ADENOVIRUSES, HUMAN; ANIMALS; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; DEFECTIVE VIRUSES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LASER COAGULATION; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; LYMPHOKINES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0038748037     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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