In vivo gene silencing in Plasmodium berghei - A mouse malaria model

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 309, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 506-511

  Mohmmed, Asif ^a   Dasaradhi, Palakodeti V N ^a   Bhatnagar, Raj K ^a   Chauhan, Virander S ^a   Malhotra, Pawan ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

Author keywords

Berghepain; Cysteine protease; Plasmodium berghei; RNAi; siRNA

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; HEMOGLOBIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; IN VIVO STUDY; MALARIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0041328844     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.08.027     Document Type: Article

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