MicroRNA-based strategy to mitigate the risk of gain-of-function influenza studies

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 844-847

  Langlois, Ryan A ^a   Albrecht, Randy A ^a   Kimble, Brian ^b   Sutton, Troy ^b   Shapiro, Jillian S ^a   Finch, Courtney ^b   Angel, Matthew ^b   Chua, Mark A ^a   Gonzalez Reiche, Ana Silvia ^b   Xu, Kemin ^b   Perez, Daniel ^b   García Sastre, Adolfo ^a   Tenoever, Benjamin R ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMAN RESPIRATORY TRACT; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MOUSE LUNG; PATHOGENIC VIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT; SURROGATE INDICATORS; TARGET SITES;

EXPERIMENTS; MAMMALS; RNA; VIRUSES;

COMPUTER VIRUSES;

MICRORNA 192;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; BIOSAFETY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FERRET; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; LUNG; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; VIRAL TROPISM; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BODY WEIGHT; FERRETS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; MICE; MICRORNAS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRAL TROPISM; VIROLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84884140282     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.2666     Document Type: Article

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