Production of knockdown rats by lentiviral transduction of embryos with short hairpin RNA transgenes

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 450, Issue , 2008, Pages 193-209

  Dann, Christina Tenenhaus ^a   Garbers, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Germ cell; Lentivirus; One cell embryo; Rat; RNAi; ShRNA; Transgene

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; LENTIVIRUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84934434893     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-214-8_14     Document Type: Article

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