Silencing of microRNAs in vivo with 'antagomirs'

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7068, 2005, Pages 685-689

  Krützfeldt, Jan ^a   Rajewsky, Nikolaus ^b   Braich, Ravi ^c   Rajeev, Kallanthottathil G ^c   Tuschl, Thomas ^a   Manoharan, Muthiah ^c   Stoffel, Markus ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ALNYLAM PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE;

ANTAGOMIRS; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; MICRORNAS;

RNA;

MICRORNA;

MEDICINE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; HEART; INTESTINE; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; MICE; MICRORNAS; RNA, COMPLEMENTARY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 28444469246     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04303     Document Type: Article

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