HIV latency and the noncoding RNA therapeutic landscape

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 848, Issue , 2015, Pages 169-189

  Saayman, Sheena ^a,b   Roberts, Thomas C ^a   Morris, Kevin V ^a   Weinberg, Marc S ^a,b  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 29A; MICRORNA 29B; MIRAVIRSEN; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; RIBOSOME RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; VORINOSTAT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TARGETING; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HIV INFECTIONS; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENETIC THERAPY; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRUS LATENCY;

EID: 84924871962     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2432-5_9     Document Type: Article

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