Cell type specific, traceable gene silencing for functional gene analysis during vertebrate neural development

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Wilson, Nicole H ^a   Stoeckli, Esther T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXONIN 1; BETA ACTIN; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 30; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOXA 1 GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; MATH 1 GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPINAL CORD; ANIMAL; CHICK EMBRYO; CYTOLOGY; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NEURAL TUBE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

SPONDIAS PURPUREA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICRORNAS; NEURAL TUBE; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA POLYMERASE II; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 80455168260     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr628     Document Type: Article

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