MicroRNA-Restricted transgene expression in the retina

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Karali, Marianthi ^a   Manfredi, Anna ^a   Puppo, Agostina ^a   Marrocco, Elena ^a   Gargiulo, Annagiusi ^a   Allocca, Mariacarmela ^a   de Corte, Michelella ^c   Rossi, Settimio ^c   Giunti, Massimo ^d   Bacci, Maria Laura ^d   Simonelli, Francesca ^a,c   Surace, Enrico Maria ^a   Banfi, Sandro ^a,c   Auricchio, Alberto ^a,b  

^a TELETHON INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND MEDICINE TIGEM   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 124; MICRORNA 204; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGFP GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PROMOTER REGION; RETINA; RETINA CELL; SWINE; TRANSGENE; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL;

MUS; PIERIS BRASSICAE; SUIDAE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEPENDOVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SUS SCROFA; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EID: 79960788931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022166     Document Type: Article

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