Hammerhead ribozyme-mediated knockdown of mRNA for fibrotic growth factors: Transforming growth factor-beta 1 and connective tissue growth factor

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 820, Issue , 2012, Pages 117-132

  Robinson, Paulette M ^a   Blalock, Timothy D ^b   Yuan, Rong ^b   Lewin, Alfred S ^a   Schultz, Gregory S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CTGF; Oligonucleotides; Ribozymes; Scar formation; TGF ; Transduction

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYME; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOZYME; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; FIBROSIS; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLASTS; FIBROSIS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 84555187757     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-439-1_8     Document Type: Article

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