High-efficiency transfection of short hairpin RNAs-encoding plasmids into primary hippocampal neurons

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 289-300

  Zeitelhofer, Manuel ^a   Karra, Daniela ^a   Vessey, John P ^a   Jasckic, Elmir ^a   Macchi, Paolo ^a,b   Thomas, Sabine ^a   Riefler, Julia ^a   Kiebler, Michael ^a   Dahm, Ralf ^a,c  

^a Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Nucleofection; Primary hippocampal neurons; RNA interference (RNAi); SiRNA mediated knock down; Transfection efficiency

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEURONS; PLASMIDS; RATS; RNA; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 63049087126     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21840     Document Type: Article

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