RNA interference - Significance and applications

Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-46

  Stanisławska, Justyna ^a   Olszewski, Waldemar L ^a  

^a MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

Author keywords

dsRNA; Gene silencing; RNA interference; siRNA

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

EUKARYOTE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSPOSON; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 14944339470     PISSN: 0004069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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