RNA interference: Past, present and future

Current Issues in Molecular Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-6

  Campbell, Tessa N ^a   Choy, Francis Y M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; RIBONUCLEASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

DNA METHYLATION; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; ONCOGENE; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSGENE; TRYPANOSOMA; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FORECASTING; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 9444283156     PISSN: 14673037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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