Antisense delivery and protein knockdown within the intact central nervous system

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2006, Pages 2967-2975

  Cronin, Michael ^a   Anderson, Patrick N ^a   Green, Colin R ^b   Becker, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antisense Oligonucleotides; asODNs; Connexin; Cx43; FRET; Pluronic gel; Review; SiRNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744474078     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/2025     Document Type: Article

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