Lentiviral-RNA-interference system mediating homogenous and monitored level of gene silencing in human embryonic stem cells

Cloning and Stem Cells

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 339-345

  Gropp, Michal ^a   Reubinoff, Benjamin E ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; VIRUS RNA; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CLONING; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; LENTIVIRINAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; CELL LINE; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYSIOLOGY;

CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE SILENCING; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LENTIVIRUS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 41049115030     PISSN: 15362302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/clo.2006.0077     Document Type: Article

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