RNA interference as a tool to study gene function in bovine oocytes

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 111-121

  Paradis, François ^a   Vigneault, Christian ^a   Robert, Claude ^a   Sirard, Marc André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bovine; Cell cycle; Cyclin B1; Maternal mRNA; Oocyte; RNA interference

Indexed keywords

6 N,N DIMETHYLADENINE; BETA ACTIN; CYCLIN B1; CYCLIN B2; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; CYTOCHALASIN B; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COW; GENE FUNCTION; GERMINAL VESICLE; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ADENINE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CYCLIN B; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; CYTOCHALASIN B; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROINJECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, MESSENGER;

BOVINAE;

EID: 11244292012     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20193     Document Type: Article

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