RNA interference in protozoan parasites

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 509-519

  Ullu, Elisabetta ^a   Tschudi, Christian ^a   Chakraborty, Tirtha ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

AFRICA; APICOPLAST; ASIA; BACTERIAL GENETICS; DOWN REGULATION; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; RETROPOSON; RNA INTERFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOA; RNA INTERFERENCE; TOXOPLASMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 2442436725     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2004.00399.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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