Splice variant-specific silencing of angiotensin II type 1a receptor messenger RNA by RNA interference in vascular smooth muscle cells

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 339, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 499-505

  Hassan, Ali ^a   Ji, Hong ^a   Zhang, Yinghua ^a   Sandberg, Kathryn ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Angiotensin type 1a receptor; Gene silencing; RNAi; siRNA; Vascular smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; AORTA MEDIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CRICETINAE; EXONS; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; RATS; RECEPTOR, ANGIOTENSIN, TYPE 1; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 28444460803     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.11.043     Document Type: Article

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