RNAi experiments in mouse oocytes and early embryos

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Svoboda, Petr ^a   Stein, Paull ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

EDITORIAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; INHIBITION KINETICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MICROINJECTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 65649101920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.top56     Document Type: Editorial

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