Allele-specific silencing of Alzheimer's disease genes: The amyloid precursor protein genes with Swedish or London mutations

Gene

Volumn 371, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 68-74

  Feng, Xiaorong ^a   Zhao, Ping ^a   He, Yunxiu ^a   Zuo, Zhiyi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Human amyloid precursor protein; RNA interference

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG SELECTIVITY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DRUG TARGETING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ALLELES; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MUTATION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33645226480     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2005.11.006     Document Type: Article

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