RNA silencing in mammalian oocytes and early embryos

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 320, Issue , 2008, Pages 225-256

  Svoboda, Petr ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; MICRORNA; RNA;

ELECTROPORATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); METABOLISM; MOUSE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; MICE; OOCYTES; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 40649098032     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75157-1_11     Document Type: Review

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