RNA interference in schistosomes: Machinery and methodology

Parasitology

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 485-495

  Krautz Peterson, Greice ^a   Bhardwaj, Rita ^a   Faghiri, Zahra ^a   Tararam, Cibele A ^b   Skelly, Patrick J ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dicer; Gene suppression; RISC; SiRNA

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHISTOSOMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SCHISTOSOMA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; SCHISTOSOMA;

EID: 77949657191     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182009991168     Document Type: Review

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