The effect of temperature on gene silencing by siRNAs: Implications for silencing in the anterior chamber of the eye

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 82, Issue 6 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 1011-1016

  Russell, Paul ^a   Walsh, Erin ^a   Chen, WeiPing ^b   Goldwich, Andreas ^c   Tamm, Ernst R ^d  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

gene silencing; myocilin; RNA folding; siRNA; temperature

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; MYOCILIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER ANGLE; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

EID: 33646201142     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2005.12.003     Document Type: Article

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