Quantitative analysis of conditional gene inactivation using rationally designed, tetracycline-controlled miRNAs

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Berger, Stefan M ^a   Pesold, Brigitte ^a   Reber, Simone ^b   Schönig, Kai ^a   Berger, Annette J ^c   Weidenfeld, Ina ^b   Miao, Jun ^b,d   Berger, Martin R ^c   Gruss, Oliver J ^b   Bartsch, Dusan ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PROTEIN TPX2; RNA POLYMERASE II; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HELA CELL; MAMMAL CELL; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOLID TUMOR;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77957244417     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq616     Document Type: Article

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