Building mammalian signalling pathways with RNAi screens

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 177-187

  Moffat, Jason ^a   Sabatini, David M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REAGENT; RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ASSAY; CELL GROWTH; CELL SCREENING; CLASSIFICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME; GROWTH REGULATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT GENE; MAMMAL; MAMMAL CELL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, VIRAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRUSES;

HARNESS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33644519040     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1860     Document Type: Review

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