SiRNA-mediated suppression of Japanese encephalitis virus replication in cultured cells and mice

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 444-451

  Anantpadma, Manu ^a   Vrati, Sudhanshu ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

^b Translational Health Science and Technology Institute   (India)

Author keywords

Antiviral; Flavivirus; JEV; RNAi

Indexed keywords

SHORT HAIRPIN N8010; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA;

ADENOVIRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VERO CELL; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MICE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84855838557     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr487     Document Type: Article

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