Interfering with disease: Opportunities and roadblocks to harnessing RNA interference

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 397-403

  Lieberman, Judy ^a   Song, Erwei ^a   Lee, Sang Kyung ^a   Shankar, Premlata ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN P24; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CD4 ANTIGEN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; CONCANAVALIN A; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; FAS ANTIBODY; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; LAMIN A; PHOSPHOROTHIOIC ACID; POLYGLUTAMINE; RIBOZYME; RNA; RNA HELICASE; TUBULIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VIRUS VECTOR;

ALLELE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ALPHAVIRUS; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0141569812     PISSN: 14714914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4914(03)00143-6     Document Type: Review

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