Inhibition of synapse assembly in mammalian muscle in vivo by RNA interference

EMBO Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 183-188

  Kong, Xian Chu ^a   Barzaghi, Patrizia ^a   Ruegg, Markus A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; AUTOANTIBODY; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; ENZYME ANTIBODY; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RAPSYN;

AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE SILENCING; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL CELL; MUSCLE CELL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RAT; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; DYSTROPHIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLES; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; UTROPHIN;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1642487117     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400065     Document Type: Article

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