RNAi screening: New approaches, understandings, and organisms

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 145-158

  Mohr, Stephanie E ^a   Perrimon, Norbert ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

BIOMEDICINE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA TRANSFECTION; DROSOPHILA; GENE FUNCTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL CELL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENETIC TESTING; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84867594876     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.110     Document Type: Review

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