CONTRIBUTORS .................................................. vii
PREFACE ........................................................ ix
FOREWORD ..................................................... xiii
I BIOLOGY OF RNA INTERFERENCE .................................. 1
1 RNA INTERFERENCE: WHAT IS IT? ................................ 3
James A. Birchler
2 NUCLEIC ACIDS AS REGULATORY MOLECULES ....................... 12
Faqing Huang, C. J. Yu, and Yanlin Guo
3 USE OF siRNA OLIGONUCLEOTIDES TO STUDY
GENE FUNCTION ............................................... 50
Kristin A. Wiederholt and Adam N. Harris
4 GENOME SCANNING BY RNA INTERFERENCE ......................... 76
Roderick L. Beijersbergen and Oliver C. Steinbach
II DEVELOPMENT OF siRNA FOR THERAPEUTIC
APPLICATIONS ............................................... 123
5 DISCOVERY OF NEW SiRNA DELIVERY AGENTS ..................... 125
Paul H. Johnson, Diane Frank, Kunyuan Cui,
Roger Adami, Harry Wang, Michael Houston,
and Steven C. Quay
6 siRNA DELIVERY VEHICLES .................................... 174
Aliasger К. Salem and Mark A. Behlke
7 INTERFERON, CYTOKINE INDUCTION, AND OTHER
POTENTIAL IN VIVO TOXICITIES ............................... 216
Adam Judge, Marjorle Robbins, and Ian Maclachlan
8 APPLICATION OF RNA INTERFERENCE
TO VIRAL DISEASES .......................................... 272
Ralph A. Tripp and Stephen Mark Tompkins
INDEX ......................................................... 307
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