RNA interference for apoptosis signal-regulating kinase-1 (ASK-1) rescues photoreceptor death in the rd1 mouse

Molecular Vision

Volumn 15, Issue , 2009, Pages 1764-1773

  Sekimukai, Daisuke ^a   Honda, Shigeru ^a   Negi, Akira ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS SIGNAL REGULATING KINASE 1; MESSENGER RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA DEGENERATION 1; RNA INTERFERENCE; THICKNESS; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASE 5; MICE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 70149109364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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