Long dsRNA and silent genes strike back:RNAi in mouse oocytes and early embryos

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 105, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 422-434

  Svoboda, P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; INTERFERON; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE R; RIBONUCLEASE III; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DNA REPLICATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; MAMMAL CELL; MYOTUBE; NEUROBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SILENT GENE; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; EIF-2 KINASE; EMBRYO; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; INTERFERONS; MAMMALS; MICE; OOCYTES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSGENES;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 3242756576     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000078215     Document Type: Review

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