Inhibition of West Nile virus replication in cells stably transfected with vector-based shRNA expression system

Virus Research

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 292-297

  Ong, S P ^a   Chu, J J H ^a   Ng, M L ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

RNAi; SiRNA; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS REPLICATION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; GENETIC VECTORS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSFECTION; VERO CELLS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRION; VIRUS REPLICATION; WEST NILE VIRUS;

MIRIDAE; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 45449120437     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2008.04.014     Document Type: Article

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