RNA interference in mammalian cell systems

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 320, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-19

  Paddison, Patrick J ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; INITIATION FACTOR; RIBONUCLEASE III;

GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; ANIMAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METABOLISM;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTORS; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME; HUMANS; MAMMALS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 40649125064     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75157-1_1     Document Type: Review

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