Disease Modeling by Gene Targeting Using MicroRNAs

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 105, Issue , 2011, Pages 419-436

  Lan, C C ^a   Leong, I U S ^a,b   Lai, D ^a   Love, D R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cleavage; Intron; Microinjection; Silencing; Transcriptional; Vector

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053210044     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-381320-6.00018-7     Document Type: Chapter

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