RNA interference in ageing research - A mini-review

Gerontology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 496-506

  Minois, Nadège ^a,c   Sykacek, Peter ^b   Godsey, Brian ^b   Kreil, David P ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Life span; Model organisms; RNA interference; Time course analysis

Indexed keywords

AGING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; RNA INTERFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; TECHNOLOGY;

AGED; AGING; ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 78049312236     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000277626     Document Type: Short Survey

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