Targeting the kinesin Eg5 to monitor siRNA transfection in mammalian cells

BioTechniques

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1244-1248

  Weil, D ^a   Garcon L ^b   Harper, M ^a   Dumenil D ^b   Dautry, F ^a   Kress, Michel ^a  

^a INSTITUT ANDRÉ LWOFF   (France)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CELLS; ENZYME INHIBITION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RNA;

GENE EXPRESSION;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; INTERFERON; KINESIN; KINESIN EG5; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYTOFLUOROMETRY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MAMMAL CELL; MITOSIS INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0347928860     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/02336st01     Document Type: Article

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