Schistosoma japonicum: Inhibition of Mago nashi gene expression by shRNA-mediated RNA interference

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 379-384

  Zhao, Zhi rong ^a,b   Lei, Li ^a   Liu, Miao ^a   Zhu, Shao chun ^a   Ren, Cui ping ^a   Wang, Xiao nan ^a   Shen, Ji jia ^a  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Maanshan Centre of Disease of Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

H1 promoter; RNA interference; RNAi; Schistosoma japonicum glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate dehydrogenase; Schistosoma japonicum Mago nashi; short hairpin RNA; shRNA; siRNA; SjGAPDH; SjMago; small interfering RNA

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ARTICLE; CERCARIA (TREMATODE LARVA); ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA VECTOR; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMULUM; TESTIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA, HELMINTH; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM;

MAGO; MAMMALIA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM;

EID: 44249083931     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2008.03.015     Document Type: Article

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