Gene Silencing in Parasites. Current Status and Future Prospects

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 78, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-55

  Manzano Román, Raúl ^a   Oleaga, Ana ^a   Pérez Sánchez, Ricardo ^a   Siles Lucas, Mar ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Gene silencing; Helminths; Parasites; Protozoa; RNA interference

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; LIPOSOME; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; NANOPARTICLE; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA POLYMERASE II; SID 1 PROTEIN; SID 2 PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA HEBRAEUM; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES ALBIMANUS; ANOPHELES DIRUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARABIDOPSIS; ARMIGERES SUBALBATUS; ARTICLE; ASCARIS SUUM; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALIGUS ROGERCRESSEYI; CESTODE; CRUSTACEA; CULEX PIPIENS; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUM; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ELECTROPORATION; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FLY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GLOSSINA MORSITANS; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; HAEMATOBIA IRRITANS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; HELIGMOSOMOIDES POLYGYRUS; HUMAN; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEPEOPHTHEIRUS SALMONIS; LIPOSOMAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; LUCILIA CUPRINA; LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS; MONIEZIA EXPANSA; MOSQUITO; NEOBENEDENIA GIRELLAE; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS BRASILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRINI; ORNITHODOROS ERRATICUS; ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI; PARASITE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTOZOON; RHIPICEPHALUS EVERTSI; RHIPICEPHALUS MICROPLUS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT; SARCOPHAGA PEREGRINA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TICK; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRANSPOSON; TRIATOMA BRASILIENSIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VARROA; VIANNIA; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; PROTOZOA; VERMES;

EID: 84859867043     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394303-3.00002-5     Document Type: Chapter

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