Stable knock-down of vomeronasal receptor genes in transgenic Xenopus tadpoles

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 345, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 140-147

  Kashiwagi, Akihiko ^a   Kashiwagi, Keiko ^a   Saito, Shouichiro ^b   Date Ito, Atsuko ^c,d   Ichikawa, Masumi ^c   Mori, Yuji ^d   Hagino Yamagishi, Kimiko ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Olfactory epithelium; siRNA; Transgenic; V2R; VNO; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; PROTEIN XENOPUS V2R; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TADPOLE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; LARVA; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 33646424398     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.03.245     Document Type: Article

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