RNAi and MicroRNAs: From animal models to disease therapy

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 150-171

  Fjose, Anders ^a   Drivenes, Øyvind ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Drosophila; miRNA; RNA interference; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; EXPORTIN 5; F ACTIN; HOX PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR; INTERFERON; LIM PROTEIN; MICRORNA; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; RECOMBINANT SOMATOMEDIN C; RIBONUCLEASE III; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RIBOZYME; RNA; RNA HELICASE; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; BASE PAIRING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DROSOPHILA; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; THERAPY; VIRUS INFECTION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33747102798     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20069     Document Type: Review

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