Inhibition of Gene Function in Mammalian Cells Using Short-Hairpin RNA (shRNA)

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 703, Issue , 2011, Pages 189-204

  Henriksen, Jørn Remi ^a   Buechner, Jochen ^a   Løkke, Cecilie ^b   Flægstad, Trond ^a,b   Einvik, Christer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

gene silencing; MYCN; neuroblastoma; RNAi; short hairpin RNA; target knockdown validation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; GENE; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENES; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 78751621823     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-248-9_13     Document Type: Chapter

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