Preparation of cell-lines for conditional knockdown of gene expression and measurement of the knockdown effects on E4orf4-induced cell death

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 68, 2012, Pages

  Brestovitsky, Anna ^a   Sharf, Rakefet ^a   Kleinberger, Tamar ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adenovirus; Cell death; Cellular biology; Conditional knockdown; DAPI assay; E4orf4; Genetics; Issue 68; Medicine; Microbiology; Molecular biology; shRNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868293022     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/4442     Document Type: Article

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